anti-war
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Read More: Radical LinksHere are some links to radical media actions: feminist academic blogging: “The Three Things I Learned at the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women,” by Kate Clancy dispatches from Occupy Wall…
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Read More: Teaching, Intellectuals, the Left, Families and Activism, with Toby MillerThe second pod of my interview with Toby Miller for his CulturalStudies podcast was just cast. This one ended up being pretty personal: about my family of lefty intellectuals, like…
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Read More: We Walked OutAbout an hour into my course on Feminist Spaces Online a student informed us that an absent class member had just texted her suggesting that we should leave class and…
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Read More: Ka-Kinda Busy[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHXgFU7qNI&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Hello, hello baby. I’m kinda busy right now and don’t have the mental or maybe psychic energy to draw all the links between pop music, homo-erotic war-play, ritual violence,…
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Read More: Imagining We Care: “Supporting Our Troops” in Recent War Films
I recently watched Brothers (in a theater) and Taking Chance (at home). They tell opposing tales about Americans’ relationships to our troops—disavowal and send ’em to the dustbin versus hero-worshipping,…
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Read More: Meaning(less) Locker
I really liked Hurt Locker. Which is interesting, given my strong anti-war inclinations and its profoundly open-ended stance on this, our war in Iraq. The film plays this war as…
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Read More: On Iran Vέritέ
I’m a fan of Digital Poetics. I support his (and many bloggers) committed support and relay of people-made videos coming from Iran in the face of heightening censorship and oppression.…
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Read More: FatelessnessI just saw this 2005 film thanks to Netflix. I had recently read the book thanks to my friend Sarah. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aifZLtzLdU&hl=en&fs=1&] It’s hard for me to think about the work…
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Read More: LongForm/YouTube/OxyMoron
Thanks to Chuck at the Chutry Experiment for alerting me to the fact that the docs on snagfilms are now, magically, on YouTube. You see, beyond the many feature docs…