I think I'm going to start recording some notes on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

Also, thanks to a friend I'm listening to Fredric Jameson's lectures on Marx.  They are awesome.

Finally, Juan Cole has some important comments on the alleged national reconciliation law at juancole.com

I first tried to read Phenomenology of Spirit during Spring Break ( Read more... )

I spent much of last year watching the movies of Wong Kar Wai and Fruit Chan.  Does anybody know what happened to "My Blueberry Nights?", Wong's first U.S. film?
I finally finished Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, hitting my goal of finishing it in 2007.  Except for the Preface, but he wrote that last anyway, so it's not even a real preface.

There ( Read more... )

Lust Caution is the third Ang Lee movie I've seen (including The Incredible Hulk and Brokeback Mountain).  All of them are serious films, even the one about the giant green scientist-monster.

There seems to be a real concern to foreground a by-now-familiar theme of nationalism as patriarchy, signalled by the first reference to Ibsen's "A Doll's ( Read more... )

A recent article in the LATimes reported on the latest ICE raids, which rounded up over 1,000 immigrants:

"Federal officers in Southern California over the last two weeks have arrested more than 1,300 immigrants, most of whom either have criminal records or have failed to abide by deportation orders -- part of an intensifying but controversial ( Read more... )

Estella Habal's new (and only) book, The San Francisco International Hotel, is just awesome.  Those of you familiar with Curtis Choy's Documentary, the Fall of the I-Hotel, will learn a lot more about every aspect of the monumental struggle of the late 60s-70s.  The author writes grippingly about the details of the police and sheriff assault on the ( Read more... )

...I'm allergic to shrimp.  And probably all seafood.

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An interesting excerpt from Angela Davis' book "Women, Race, and Class"

"In the opinion of Fredrick Douglass, the abolition of slavery had been accomplished ni name alone.  The daily lives of Black people in the South still reeked of slavery.  There was only one way, so Douglass argued, to consolidate and secure the new 'free' status of ( Read more... )

Good article by David Bacon on immigrant rights here.

I've been in a couple meetings with immigrant rights groups recently, and it's been interesting and inspiring to be around.

I've been trying to build an alliance between the mvmt for immigrants rights and rights of formerly incarcerated, more on this later.  I think this would be a big step ( Read more... )

whoopsy daisy.  the Fred Ho link actually links to the Fred Ho response to Kenyon Farrow, not the Oliver Wang piece.  But you know, all these Asian blogs look alike.

Recently I stumbled upon a piece by Kenyon Farrow called "We Real Cool."  I think it was a hot topic when it was orginally posted many years ago.  You can read it at his blog here.

Oliver Wang's blog is quoted in Kenyon's piece.  You can read that here.

"Totally random," as my friend says, is Fred Ho's response here.

I"m very interested in this ( Read more... )