The Florida Test
The students aren’t learning? We’ll fix that: we’ll test them.
Exceptionalist Manifesto
Exceptionalism is
my proudest embarrassment
Time Travel On The Nervous System: It's A Yin-Yang Bang
It’s my own personal touch, though not an original one, on the cycle of starting from the esthetic, growing into the ethical, and maturing into the religious
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Guan Yin
First, she is a goddess. She is one today throughout East Asia—although in some countries she is a he. Yes the goddess is sometimes a god, so that's worth a second look, for some a veritable double-take. You can see that even as a woman, she is often ambiguously gendered, where some of the statues are flat-chested and almost indistinguishable from representations of the young Buddha himself.
Fragments from ?The Salt Diaries? (1990-2007)
I am terrified by the idea of writing in a language that is not my own. How could I think or write in English? Which part of myself do I have to give up? Is thinking and feeling in a different language a type of prostitution?
Art Kills One, Injures Two! Special to the Corpse Direct from Campus
Then the art descended. Now that was a cold day!
Eliade, from Opium And Cannabis to Amphetamines*
Andrei Oisteanu's groundbreaking study on Mircea Eliade and drugs
The Romanian Avant-Garde And Visual Poetry
new scholarship on Dada and picto-poesy from Andrei Oisteanu
Picnic Game With Nudes
We women are naked, men ill suited.
(m)other words
An essay by Tzveta Sofronieva
Translated from the German by Chantal Wright
When I arrived in Germany fifteen years ago - from America, not Bulgaria - I knew four words: 'gut', 'kaputt', 'heil' (from 'Heil Hitler!'), all from Russian war films, and 'das Sein' because of Kan
go to church
In today's US, religion is one of the few fields
Marginalia on Marginalism in Contemporary Times
Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a gang member in Neza, a rocker in the National University, a Jew in Nazi Germany, an ombudsman in the Defense Ministry, a communist in the post-Cold War era, an artist without gallery or portfolio.... A pacifist in Bosnia, a housewife alone on Saturday night in any neighborhood in any city in Mexico, a striker in the CTM, a reporter writing filler stories for the back pages, a single woman on the subway at 10 pm, a peasant without land, an unemployed worker... an unhappy student, a dissident amid free market economics, a writer without books or readers, and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains of southeast Mexico. So Marcos is a human being, any human being, in this world. Marcos is all the exploited, marginalized and oppressed minorities, resisting and saying, 'Enough'!
–El Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
—Peter Ustinov
The marginality of intellectuals is a myth; even in the resolutely hermetic world of Washington, their voices are heard.
–James Atlas, 19 October 2003, in The New York Times