Category: labor

• Physical/Labor

  Oct 3

  As many books about the subject can attest, performance art calls into question passed-down notions of identity and subjectivity. At one extreme, the art attempts to dislocate (if not outright… more ›

• The Adjunct: Confessions and Manifesto of a Benefits-Deprived Professor

  Feb 11

  First, we need to create honest and accurate language. Adjunct designates an inessential supplement, yet adjunct professors are just as permanent a fixture at colleges and universities trying to save a… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part III of III)

  Jun 23

  Even More seems aware of these shifting borders as he attempts an analogous, albeit rhetorical, configuration throughout his text. First we have More as author, here to relate the tale… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part II of III)

  Jun 21

  At the exact opposite end of history from Eden, we have the notion of the New Jerusalem, a utopian space carved out somewhere between a new heaven and a new… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part I of III)

  Jun 19

  Cultural notions of perfection in social organization find their origins in Thomas More’s Utopia, a text that inscribes on our collective cultural consciousness the very concept of utopia itself. More’s… more ›

• May Day

  May 1

  May Day, or May 1, is the traditional celebration of springtime in the Northern Hemisphere and more recently the international public holiday to commemorate the achievements of labor and to… more ›

• Gathering the Gauntlet

  Mar 24

  Having successfully completed the three written comprehensive exams without either dying or melting down, I now only face the two-hour oral defense scheduled for 2:00 PM tomorrow. I think that… more ›

• May Day, May Day

  May 1

  As if to prove the rule from yesterday’s post, today’s headlines included “U.S. airstrike kills top Qaeda agent in Somalia” and “Car bomb kills at least 9 in Baghdad; U.S.… more ›