This is what democracy looked like:

One encouraging aspect of the recent interest in occupation is that it has not been domesticated as a “campus phenomenon.”  However, this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be looking with interest at what is occurring on our campuses.  With this in mind I offer the Nation’s recent comparison of police confrontations at UC Berkeley and Penn State  and the proceedings from a conference held on the 40^th anniversary of Columbia University’s student protests.

You can watch archival footage of what the Columbia events actually looked like , which is a useful exercise given the powerful, but slightly claustrophobic effect of recent clips from Berkeley and Penn State. If you are patient enough to reach the 21 minute mark you will be confronted an essential question: how can we bring the limbo back into radical politics?

Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities

The latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly focuses on literary representations of dis(-)appearing (post)colonial cities across the Eurasian continent. Click here to read the introduction.