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I miss him, I miss him.
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Critical fetishism among the chattering classes
So a majority of the people I know out here are self-described liberals who "only listen to NPR" (or alternately "listen to NPR all day long") and "only read the New York Times" (said somewhat self-abnegatingly, but not really) and they all love a particular genre of non-fiction book that I will describe, after Errington and Gewertz, as "critical ( Read more... ) -
White men in New Guinea
"[Under German administration] Life held few unmanageable 'uncertainties'. By contrast, their successors have remained unpredictable: a set of unique individuals who fall loosely into the categories of Kiap (administrative officer), Kampani-masta (trader, planter, recruiter, prospector), and Pater or Misin (missionary or mission). Recruited from ( Read more... ) -
Historical phenomenology of nationalism
“it is also necessary to ask what nationalism means at the local popular level, where the nation is often understood through local ontologies of power, space, death, and relatedness that are very different from the ontological schemes organizing how Western culture imagines the nation…. We need to develop a historical phenomenology of nationalism ( Read more... ) -
The best thing Woody Allen ever wrote
For your enjoyment: the full text of a short story I somehow read at the age of 10, but which is even funnier at 29.
( The Whore of Mensa )
