Sweetheart candy hearts are seen on the shelf at the To The Moon Marketplace on January 29, 2019, in Wilton Manors, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Listen to tales of love and heartbreak. Learn to cook vegan coconut flan. Watch stories of love and friendship at the Reel Love Film Fest. Listen to a panel discussion about the Black women of rock and roll. Kick back at a screening of
Minari, the story of a Korean American family that moves to an Arkansas farm. Bite into a half-off pizza deal on National Pizza Day (Tuesday, Feb. 9).
Monday, Feb. 8; 7:30
February StorySLAM: Love Hurts
Trump, the Working Class, and Fascist Rhetoric
William E. Connolly (bio)
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I will not focus extensively here upon the broadest political strategies to adopt with respect to the Trump phenomenon and the constituencies drawn into the dangerous movement he has intensified (It is certainly not a new movement).
1 That is largely because the strategies I support have recently been adumbrated in chapter 5 of
Facing the Planetary.
2 Briefly, they involve articulating a militant, pluralist, cross-regional assemblage consisting of diverse constituencies who together contest the priorities of investment capital, expose Trumpian tactics, attract a larger segment of the white working class into an assemblage, and seek to reduce inequality, nurture pluralism, and cope with climate change. I call this the politics of swarming because it rolls across role experiments that help to recode the visceral registers of cultural life, to social protest movements, to renewed attention to electoral pol
In 1965, a reporter for
Cumhuriyet, a Turkish daily newspaper, asked the novelist, playwright, and essayist James Baldwin then living in Istanbul about his dreams for the future of the United States. Baldwin, in his reply, chose instead to talk about the
history of the United States. He explained that the future he imagined already existed in the past of the country, namely in the Reconstruction era. “Black and white people were side by side even in trade unions in the South,” Baldwin said, and continued: “We had Black members in Parliament. … Unfortunately, northern capitalists and southern landlords [
aghas] destroyed this unity and order.”
UCLA
Top row from left: Cheryl Keyes, Robin D.G. Kelley, Sarah Haley, Brenda Stevenson, Gaye Theresa Johnson. Bottom row from left: Kyle Mays, Karida Brown, Shana Redmond, Tananarive Due, Devon Carbado.
Black History Month: A reading list of books by Black UCLA faculty
These 10 titles include explorations of civil rights, jazz and rap, influential artists and writers and other topics
Black History Month: A reading list of books by Black UCLA faculty
These 10 titles include explorations of civil rights, jazz and rap, influential artists and writers and other topics
UCLA
Top row from left: Cheryl Keyes, Robin D.G. Kelley, Sarah Haley, Brenda Stevenson, Gaye Theresa Johnson. Bottom row from left: Kyle Mays, Karida Brown, Shana Redmond, Tananarive Due, Devon Carbado.
by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin / February 1st, 2021
Inde etiam habitus nostri honor et frequens toga; paulatimque discessum ad delenimenta vitiorum, porticus et balinea et convivorum elegantiam. Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
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They adopted our dressing fashion, and begun wearing the togas; little by little they were drawn to touches such as colonnades, baths, and elegant talks. Because they didn’t know better, they called it ‘civilization,’ when it was part of their slavery.) Tacitus,
Introduction
The general problem of culture today is its ability to facilitate and support negative aspects of society through encouraging escapism, diversion and ignorance regarding many important issues of contemporary life, such as economic crises, repressive legislation, poverty, and climate chaos. Or worse still, the use of culture to promote elite views of society regarding power and money, as well as imperialist agendas through negative depictio