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He designed a fridge-magnet poem-kit (which, I believe, has now had a software program based on it). He wrote a skeptical book about Europe in 1987, before Europe was really a subject (Ach Europa! was the wonderful title of the original; Europe Europe in English). He wrote a children’s book, an opera libretto about a runaway Cuban slave, a world-best-selling math book (The Number Devil), a partial memoir (Tumult).]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:00:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyZc3kY8ftFwslTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeytyMVBEqC-Zt3hDS9njgCr
This concept of a rotation in power was crucial to Furman. It was the ultimate test of a democracy. Many countries in the post-Soviet space had managed to do it—to hold an election in which the opposition actually won. Some, like Belarus and Azerbaijan, had managed to do it only once; others, like Ukraine and Georgia, a few times. But Russia had not ever managed to do it.]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:46:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeytyMVBEqC-Zt3hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew2AsG-VSNs1msGk81fO-bN
The US working class was forged, for Davis, through its compounded historical defeat, which gave it a distinctive contradictory, battered, and lumpy form that could not be evened out through appeals to abstraction. Most importantly, the cycle of defeat and accommodation had separated the official labor movement from the Black working class, which he saw as the only possible “cutting edge” for socialist politics.]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:04:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew2AsG-VSNs1msGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewh4YXJqD5lPSVCAQLB0bf5
1. Isolation I was born in a closed, totalitarian country. One would think that as long as a child didn’t know any other reality, they could be happy. Here I am flipping through the pages of a children’s magazine for early readers: I study the pretty pictures and read the propaganda—stories about the USSR and […]]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:18:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewh4YXJqD5lPSVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeznbB0-PynsBq8qfTAM-Smm
Join us in our Greenpoint office for readings from two new poetry books in translation from the Russian: Leonid Schwab’s Everburning Pilot (translated by Anton Tenser, Alex Spektor, Sibelan Forrester and others) and Anna Glazova’s For the Shrew (translated by Alex Niemi). Authors and translators will do bilingual readings. This event is free and open to […]]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2022 23:12:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeznbB0-PynsBq8qfTAM-Smm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexfbebFbMibsfdczOo_8W9B
When things were slow on the floor, I liked to duck into the locker room and study the clipboard. To me it was like poetry, this ever-changing list of all the girls on that night. Angelina, Kitty, Buttercup. I tried to memorize them all. Who could make the whole world bend to her? Scarlet, Candy, Foxy, Grace.]]> Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:12:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexfbebFbMibsfdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexc1eXyPeBi6cfGo0LrnZNO
Facts, in Latour’s view, don’t exist “out there,” waiting to be discovered or understood. They are the hard-won products of scientific work, the result of a long and often contentious process of collecting data, negotiating controversy, and translating the consensus into papers that are read, judged, and, if all goes smoothly, replicated by scores of other scientists.]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2022 20:28:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexc1eXyPeBi6cfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeznGnfM9DUdSGnhpmeYcemU
I’m interested in how words with particular identities and backgrounds—“spirit,” “God,” “thought,” “tranquility”—take part, without comment, and perhaps without full knowledge, in a metamorphosis, a movement across meanings that leads not so much from the “West” to the “East” as, subtly and suggestively, away from the Enlightenment to a new emergence and sense of the “literary.”]]> Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:38:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeznGnfM9DUdSGnhpmeYcemU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexctqwDl-4CmgaB2UxGNFpJ
Join n+1 and Astra House for a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event in our Greenpoint office. n+1 contributor Vanessa A. Bee will discuss her new memoir, Home Bound, with author Jeanna Kadlec (whose own memoir, Heretic, is also out this fall). Bee and Kadlec will read from their books and discuss their experiences leaving the […]]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:44:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexctqwDl-4CmgaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew1AD7llShfyP9M7fKGWt0o
Yesterday’s Pleats are in tomorrow’s seafood (microplastics, it seems, tend to proliferate in mollusks like scallops, mussels and oysters, fancy girl food and treif alike). Of all the myriad toxicities of microplastics, I was most tickled to learn that they are estrogenic and lower sperm count; the red-pilled among us might argue that the Pleats themselves made me trans.]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:22:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew1AD7llShfyP9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezE1TpGZCLQRZJTpfXVttXD
“Art today is Jean-Luc Godard,” the French poet Louis Aragon wrote in 1965. “Godard is not satisfied with the world as it is, he remakes it in his own manner . . . in Pierrot le fou red sings like an obsession.” It would again, decades later, in The Image Book. Godard has long been one of the few who believe that color is not a given, that it is a craft like any other. If his movies—the ones with Belmondo, with Gorin, with Miéville—have staying power, it is because he never completed his own search, for color or anything else. It is customary for any legendary artist to lapse into an academicism of the self. They have figured out how to do what they do and do so indefinitely. Godard wasn’t like that.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2022 04:11:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezE1TpGZCLQRZJTpfXVttXD https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew0R2aO7maN-W7fhEn5oRuR
Ehrenreich’s work has always acknowledged that power operates at the intimate level, and that this is part of what makes it difficult to resist. To engage in political struggle is not just frightening, it is painful, because power is not just out there: it is also a voice in your own head—projection, inner fear. This is a distinctively feminist insight and not by coincidence.]]> Fri, 09 Sep 2022 16:44:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew0R2aO7maN-W7fhEn5oRuR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex1OOziJKJZTwaB2UxGNFpJ
“Volkisch Currents in Early Live Electronics,” said Tommy. “National Socialism and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse,” said Scott. “Sonic Armaments of the Waffenamt?!” Tommy shrieked.]]> Fri, 09 Sep 2022 16:28:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex1OOziJKJZTwaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyJxDScrUEI3e4sICfMfkNm
Gerontocracy is a relative concept. At his death in 1984 Yuri Andropov was only 69, decades younger than Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein and the other ancients currently presiding over the US Senate. What mattered was not the absolute age of the Soviet leadership but their generational cohort. Soviet history can usefully be understood as the story of the youth, maturity, and senescence of a single age group: people who were children in 1917.]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2022 22:05:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyJxDScrUEI3e4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew0B5ohi0ka67b9ICM-PHur
One of the most interesting parts of my research was that I came to see the official indifference to the public's health as not a bug but a feature of this society. You see the elites routinely rejecting quarantine, and they spent very, very little money on sanitation—which was a big deal, especially because many people at this time thought that the disease is spread by miasma. People in New Orleans came to suspect that their city fathers were literally willing them to die.]]> Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:45:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew0B5ohi0ka67b9ICM-PHur https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyqEXKlmISG9PnNuMIJyU22
Marguerite Young spent eighteen years of her life writing Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, the amount of time it requires to raise a child. She began the novel in 1945, in the shadow of Hiroshima, and proceeded for the next two decades to work on it each day, putting in a reliable eight hours. She wrote […]]]> Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:32:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyqEXKlmISG9PnNuMIJyU22 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexgRAH0QGroQIIAmcWJ0TmB
Join n+1 in Chicago for the 2022 Socialism Conference! From September 2–5, the conference gathers thousands of leftwing activists and authors in Chicago to share lessons from history, learn about socialist and abolitionist ideas and organizing, discuss current struggles, and debate current issues on the left. On September 3, n+1 will host a panel discussion […]]]> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:39:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexgRAH0QGroQIIAmcWJ0TmB https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyQXCPXpWCYcFRpWVnEcNkS
We hadn’t spent time together in a while. I was already away at college and no longer had much contact with him, and suddenly I realized that I didn’t know him very well—or was that just a feeling I had now, fifty years later, as his image gradually fades from my mind and I could no longer tell you if he was right- or left-handed.]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:10:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyQXCPXpWCYcFRpWVnEcNkS https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewqhaTo3iJz90QqW5gBv7mX
At its base, the abortion fight has always been a struggle over the work, risk, and expense of bearing and raising children. Since the the birth rate has dropped, capital has understood this fact with devastating clarity.]]> Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:17:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewqhaTo3iJz90QqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew7k3UOM-bwMdaXKMm36c-X
A slender, right-wing majority on the Supreme Court (the vote was 5–4) overturned Roe v. Wade in the waning days of the Supreme Court’s term. It is a mistake, however, to render the ideological division of this split Court as one between “liberals” and “conservatives” as this fails to grapple with the true radicalism of […]]]> Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:45:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew7k3UOM-bwMdaXKMm36c-X