Interstitial Journal

06/07/2018

Junot Diaz must resign. Immediately. should stand with women fighting to end sexual violence and advance gender justice, rather than a man who undermines that mission. How about an issue devoted to telling his victim's stories?

The poetry editors disagreed with the decision to keep the Pulitzer Prize winner on despite sexual misconduct allegations.

06/06/2018

Muppet phenomenology to brighten your day.

This video, uploaded in 2012 to YouTube, features the iconic Muppets song "Mahna Mahna," subtitled to explain phenomenology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGAxMo-kiw "Phenomena - It's all around us. Phenomena - It's everywhere" Phenomenology was pioneered by Edmund Husserl in the early 20th centu...

06/04/2018

Todd May asks: "When a movement of equality is forced into a position where it must be violent, does that undermine its character as a movement of equality?" What do you think?

Todd May is a political philosopher at Clemson University in the US and the author of many books, including A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability (2017) and Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction (2015). At the Los Angeles Review of Books, May chats about fascism and the politics....

04/01/2018

Boycott Peeps (If you can resist).

Behind the wax-eyed candy is a company at war with its union workforce over rising pension costs — an escalating legal tangle that could now upend the retirement plans of 10 million Americans.

03/06/2018

How would overcoming change our concept of time?

A hundred years ago, the United States adopted daylight savings time in order to extract more profit from labor. How would we organize time differently if we were free from the demands of capitalism?

01/15/2018

What has Trump's presidency taught us in a year?

Political GeographyVolume 62, January 2018, Pages 207-215InterventionReassessing the Trump presidency, one year onAuthor links open overlay panelPhilip E.SteinbergaSamPagebJasonDittmerbBanuGökarikselcSaraSmithcAlanIngrambNatalieKochdhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.10.010Get rights and content...

01/10/2018

Let’s couple our critiques with corresponding efforts to build a more just and equal world.

Academia can be tough to crack. Too frequently, faded ideas are articulated in fading tones that reverberate off only slightly-less faded classroom walls, stacked atop each other in austere buildin…

01/07/2018

When troll culture gets too meta.

is negging you to sell burgers.

01/04/2018

Nuclear threats are rooted in patriarchy.

On Trump's "big button" and "missile envy."

01/02/2018

The deeper meaning of the New Year's selfie.

New Year’s is a time for reflecting on ourselves and resolving to close the gap between our ideal selves and our actual, drunken, midnight-kissed selves. About the self, the French philosophe…

01/01/2018

We resolve to elevate theory in 2018.

12/25/2017

Merry and happy holidays!