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Transgressing Virtual Geographies

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:08:44 +0000

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi interviews Ricardo Dominguez

As co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater, Ricardo Dominguez’ name has long been legendary among hackers, proto-internet enthusiasts, and performance artists. For more than 20 years Dominguez has pretzeled a non-traditional professional trajectory…

Revisionist Multiculturalism and its Neo-Racist Proclivities

Gopal Nair — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:17:06 +0000

The central focus of this article is to demonstrate insufficient media attention to a subterranean coded message beneath the ideological demagoguery dressed as revisionist justifications against multiculturalism. The media rationalizations, currently in vogue, not only challenge and reject permeation of…

Policy and Planning

Fred Moten — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:22:18 +0000

The hope that Cornel West wrote about in Social Text in 1984 was not destined to become policy in 2008. The ones who practiced it, within and against the grain of every imposed contingency, always had a plan.

The Informational University, the Uneven Distribution of Expertise and the Racialization of Labour

Ned Rossiter — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:34:52 +0000

This essay revisits Marc Bousquet’s insight that the flexibilization of labour is at the centre of the informatization of the university as it embraces the force of neoliberal regimes. This orientation of labour around processes of informatization draws on work undertaken by various researchers...

Who gets ‘booked’: Super-Surveillance & the case of Ali Dizaei

Nirmal Puwar — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:37:10 +0000

Could it be that racialized bodies who speak out of turn and engage in the renegade act of whistle blowing, especially risk feeling the cold wrath of administrative controls mangled in the terms of misconduct and professional integrity. Codes of…

European colonial memory on sell: Italian-Libyan agreements and the rejection of migrants

Enrica Capussotti — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:54:47 +0000

On the 10th of June Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, leader of Libya, arrived in Rome for the first time since he ousted the monarchy in 1969. He addressed Italians saying: “you had apologised for what happened and that is what allowed me to be able to come here today”.

Céad Míle Slán

Robbie McVeigh — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:08:57 +0000

It must have been the most benevolent ethnic cleansing in the history of Europe. As Roma in Belfast found refuge in a leisure centre following a period of sustained racist violence in June this year, a whole range of the good and great from Stormont arrived to ask them to stay.

How the Homosexual Came To Be: A Journey Through Freud

Akhil Katyal — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:05:38 +0000

One of my teachers in Delhi, Udaya Kumar, used to explain the concept of the Freudian unconscious with an image. He used to draw a horizontal white line on the blackboard which was an analogue for the ground. Then making a slight gash in the line, he talked of a burial...

Cyberwar guide for Iran elections

Sanjay Sharma — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:26:56 +0000

The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter.

Turning Universities into Borders: The Case of the SOAS Cleaners

Alberto Toscano — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:31:35 +0000

On Friday, June 12 cleaning staff at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), employed by the company ISS, were called to an emergency staff meeting, where they were set upon by forty immigration officers and taken away for questioning.