I’m also struck by the extremely reductive and sweeping generalisations being made about theory. Criticism of the same would be more worthwhile if it didn’t come from such an anti-intellectual space.
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Žižek represents a comforting spot for overgrown graduate students.
In the annals of vengeance disguised as justice, the point, it seemed, was not to condemn the murders committed by the state, but to celebrate innocence.
“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”
What happens to those who don’t transition so beautifully?
“With this book, I want to reimagine memoir as an active process of remembering, an investigation, an instigation—stylistically and structurally, as well as politically and intimately. “
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Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.
iPhones are apparently the Beanie Babies – remember them? – of the phone world.
“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”
Prison abolitionist and activist Angela Davis was in Chicago Sept. 7, as the keynote speaker at “Bending the Arc,” a new symposium series in honor of late civil-rights attorney and activist Robert Howard.