Amardeep Singh

"Just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." --Toni Morrison

Le Tigre: A Little Jolt of Disco/Electoclash Dadaist Aerobics

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This guerilla Le Tigre video , done by someone in France (and presumably not the band itself ) is too damn dada. One wants to laugh, one wan...

NYPL Image Archive Free and Online

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Through the NYT , I find that the New York Public Library has made hundreds of thousands of images in its archival book collection freely av...

Orality vs. Text: Hiking, Writing, Blogging, Podcasting...

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Our friend Elck, at Vernacular Body, has an intriguing post on orality vs. textuality in storytelling. Written text unfolds in space. It...

Open Access to Academic Journals?

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There was a conference at Southampton University in England this past week on providing open access to scholarly information over the inter...

Take 'em down

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I'm with the NYT : the Ten Commandments should be taken down from the courthouse displays in Texas and Kentucky. It looks like it will a...

Ankle Monitors or Jail?

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Which would you take, the electronic ankle monitor or jail for three to six months? As much as it sounds crazy, I would probably prefer the ...

An Indian Speculative Fiction Writer: Vandana Singh

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Vandana Singh's story "Delhi," from the anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (remember M...

Snow object

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I know what what it looks like. The resemblance really wasn't intentional. We just piled snow for awhile, and this is what we ended up m...

On Snow

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The line between middle class American childhood and adulthood can be boiled down to a simple distinction: children play in the snow, adults...

Authors in exile -- from themselves

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Though the latest biography of D.H. Lawrence doesn't seem like it's anything too too shocking, I was struck by the following paragra...

Condi's fashion statement

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Condi's fashion statement, in the Washington Post . The message: I won't stop at Secretary of State.

Congrats to Dilip D'Souza

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Via Locana , I learn that Dilip D'Souza , blogger and journalist extraordinaire, has won the Outlook-Picador Prize for a non-fiction bo...

The Strange Case of "Kurban Said"

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Who the heck is Kurban Said? Friday is my non-teaching day, so I went down to Montclair to check out what I think is the nearest used bookst...

"Discover the Network"

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Michael Berube has been having a bit of a duel with David Horowitz over Horowitz's goofy (but evil) "Discover the Network" w...

"Our Godless Constitution," and the Treaty with Tripoli

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Brooke Allen, at the Nation, has an essay on the Godlessness of the U.S. Constitution and the founding fathers. It's essentially a remi...
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