@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex – Shane Harris
Most frustrating is the author’s futile attempt to reconcile his desire for a broad readership with his choice of a subject as inherently technical as cyber warfare.
Style, whether in fiction or nonfiction, is always, always, always, the curry in which the goat gets cooked.
Maybe we are fucked, it’s completely possible. Maybe there are structures that are more powerful than individual agency, or even collective agency to overcome in certain situations.
I read Bolaño first as a general reader, then as a translator, and finally as a critic.
Bowie . . . is the most important artist of the last forty years, for me, in any medium — any medium, books, anything.
In California belief in the goodness of our state universities is best understood as a civic religion, which makes it difficult when faculty like me and Chris Newfield try to tell the public that its universities have become worse
In colloquial terms we say possession is nine tenths of the law — well the other tenth is reparations.
What we hide and what we try to obfuscate, what we avoid, the ways in which we deceive others and deceive ourselves — all this is so much a part of who we are.
I’m El Salvadoran to an Oaxacan, mulatto to a Haitian squinting her eyes, black to the negro curious about America’s slave past, and white to any Anglo too busy finding what they want to see there. Either I am nobody, or I am a nation.
Women Who Make A Fuss – Isabelle Stengers & Vinciane Despret
What is the value of walking soberly and honorably to the guillotine? Why not cry and scream all the way there?