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Hayden WHITE “Postmodernism and Historiography” Parerga: Postmodernist historical thought is present-oriented and is primarily interested in the past only insofar as it can be used to serve the present. Thus, Lyotard is only half-right in finding the origin of postmodernism in the rejection of the great schemata (‘grands recits’) of universal history which purported to…
Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast The article that every other article about his death seems to be plagiarizing from…
Al Jazeera: “Is Turkish Secularism Under Threat?” {Image reminded me of a presentation one of my students did a couple of years ago.
Women in Taiwan marrying, giving birth at later ages: MOI | Taiwan News Strange how this headline seems to assign blame for declining birthrate to women…the Patriarchy speaks.
Now > The Invisible Committee Tomorrow Is Cancelled Fifty Shades Of Breakage Death To Politics Let’s Destitute The World End Of Work, Magical Life Everyone Hates The Police For The Ones To Come
China’s love guru Ayawawa suspended on Weibo for saying female sex slaves had a ‘gender advantage’ – Resonate “All sorts of benefits will come your way without stop, if you play your gender advantage well.“ Chinese love guru Ayawawa has been suspended from Weibo for saying Chinese sex slaves had a “gender advantage” over men.…
Dangerous Don DeLillo “I was born on Nov. 20, 1936,” he begins, leaning an inch or two forward, toward the tape recorder. He sticks to the essential facts. Except for a short stint in Pennsylvania when he was quite young, he was brought up in the Fordham section of the Bronx, a neighborhood…