posted by Noel Ignatiev Following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, someone posted the following comment on Facebook: Everyone wants to make school shootings about guns, but no one wants to consider that they might also have something to do with schools. I <shared> the comment on my Facebook page. My <share> elicited a number […]
The Ideal of the Broken Down: On the Neapolitan Approach to Things Technical
Alfred Sohn-Rethel Alfred Sohn-Rethel was the author of Economy and Class Structure in German Fascism and Intellectual and Manual Labor: a critique of epistemology—two important works on economics and philosophy. He spent time in Naples during the 1920s and published this article in a German newspaper. For a couple of hundred years, the informal economy has been the […]
Lift Every Voice
From a new book by Imani Perry, A History of the Black National Anthem “By asserting the cross-cultural and multigenre and style collage of black formalist rituals, I, like [Ralph] Ellison, am disagreeing with a good deal of African American studies criticism. A distinction has sometimes been made by such critics that treats art (or […]
Letter From Huntsville: “Look Out For One Another”
by Curtis Price Through an unknown Facebook friend, I was added to a “secret” Facebook group of some 2,000-odd folks in northern Alabama, where I live. You can’t join, you have to be referred and vetted as trustworthy. I can’t call out its colorful name (which loosely translates as “Look Out For One Another [LOFOA],” […]
Unity – At Whose Cost?
by Noel Ignatiev The Palestinian American Women’s Association announced that it would boycott the January 20 Women’s March in Los Angeles. The announcement came after Scarlett Johannson was confirmed as a “Special Guest speaker” at the march. Johansson is the face of the advertising campaign of SodaStream, an Israeli company whose plant is located in […]
Alabama: “Vote or Die”
by Curtis Price The election of Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama December 12th sent shock waves through the political establishment. To put Jones’s victory in perspective, the last time a Democrat won a Senate race in Alabama was in 1992. For many in the orbit of the Democratic Party, the Alabama election signaled a shift […]