the website of paul aitken, guitarist – improviser – scholar
This is a fantastic interview with Dr. Anthony Stewart of Dalhousie University’s Department of English in which he discusses the recent cross burning in Nova Scotia and issues of race in the academy.
Information on his book, You Must Be A Basketball Player, is available here.
Friends of friends:
The Night Shift is a guide for those of you who are lost: for the thinkers amongst you who are frustrated by a lack of progress in creating a just society and for the practical amongst you who are at a loss as to what you should actually be doing. The nature of our questions eliminates the possibility of any pre-defined destination, but we hope that you can find the direction you lack. This, then, is the heart of The Night Shift: movement with guidance, force with direction, ideas with action.
Cool, anachronistic blogging! George Orwell’s diaries from the late-1930s, in blog form.
A couple of months ago I posted about Žižek: The Lecture!, which took place at the University of Leeds. Video of both the lecture and an interview conducted by Diane Myers prior to the event are up at SubalternStudies.
This past few months I have been lucky enough to be among the organisers for Slavoj Žižek’s visit to the University of Leeds on Tuesday 18 March. We got over 550 people out to see one of the most interesting and provocative intellectuals alive today. It was a great event that showed what a spirit of volunteerism and collective investment in a project can bring!
Pictures are up at subalternstudies.
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