Yasmin Nair

On the Current Paranoia about Trump vs. Clinton

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 29, 2016

I think those who criticise critics of HRC for possibly enabling a Trump victory are over-invested in presidential politics and elections to the extent they don’t see how work actually needs to happen in other arenas and levels.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10, 2016: Illustration of presidential campaign buttons of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump running for the president's office.

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“The Political Is Political”: I’m Profiled in Salvage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 25, 2016

“But, as compelling and scandalising as her campaigning around gay marriage with Against Equality is, it is far from the only place she’s causing a stir.”

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Steven Spielberg’s The BFG and the AMM

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 7, 2016

It’s that “childlike enchantment” that has become a shopworn element in Spielberg’s work, and that damn trippy, skippy music by the ubiquitous and overplayed John Williams is an incessant accompaniment to a narrative that is equally clichéd.

On Books and Publishing Updates

The Mother of All Updates

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 29, 2016

On Books and Publishing Politics

Review of Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East, in Electronic Intifada

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 25, 2016

Anthropology as a discipline has always been rooted in imperialism.

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Talking with prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 11, 2016

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Maurice Sendak on Tomi Ungerer, and The King’s Speech

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 2, 2016

“Like we give a shit whether he stuttered or not. And you know, that’s just dumb. That’s just so dumb.“

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My Review of Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert, in Current Affairs

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 6, 2016

In other words, Gilbert, who has spent half her life as a professional writer, now believes that hers is simply a vocation.

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Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 4, 2016

Excerpt: Twitter is not merely a symptom of a public sphere but a platform that is bound up with the primary dictate of neoliberalism: Make yourself or die.

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Suey Park: Images

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 3, 2016

This document is a collection of images referenced in “Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter.” It will be constantly updated with more as the series progresses.

All images are screencaps from public Instagram and Twitter accounts.