Your basic Bay Area boy: flâneur, film buff, hiker, foodie, culture vulture, PhD drop out—an underemployed and over-caffeinated “cultural Marxist”
Frisco-Australian
Liberté, Egalité, Flâneurité!
| Fields | Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Social History, Art History, Film |
| Inspirations | Stuart Hall, Roland Barthes, Robert Hass, TJ Clark, Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
You can find an archived copy of it here: https://archive.is/1z1l4
And here's some response to it on Twitter... and some insight into who views this as a valuable contribution
A British mission from Cambridge University working at Tell El-Amarna necropolis in Minya governorate in Upper Egypt discovered a small collection of gold and steatite (soapstone) jewellery in an 18th Dynasty (1550 to 1292 BC) cemetery.
DID YOU KNOW
...city families used to pick hops on holiday?
Hop picking holidays allowed city families to earn money. Pickers were paid with tokens, which were used in local shops or exchanged for wages.
- from The Museum of English Rural Life
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Re last post...
On Twitter 5 years ago, @RobGMacfarlane proposed a reading of "The Dark is Rising" over the solstice period, beginning when the story in the book begins. I've been doing that every year since, a wonderful addition to my other annual Christmas/Solstice season reads. https://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/936163060577955840?s=20&t=U3sFji7sHMEPpwjscRmQQw
Oscar Wilde’s comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith’s film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, and Dame Edith Evans, the enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen.
Watching (mostly virtually) the strike at the University of California - much bigger than the first student unionizing strike there that I participated in - I'm put in mind of Mario Savio's speech on Sproul Plaza from the Free Speech Movement:
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious — makes you so sick at heart — that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement
