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The Once and Future Temp

Stephen Twilley — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:00:23 +0000

What can the history of the temp-work industry teach us about the precarity of modern working life?

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Public Thinker: Kim Phillips-Fein on Austerity and the Fall of New York

Stephen Twilley — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:00:56 +0000

With New York City teetering on the brink of fiscal collapse at the end of 1975, Congress passed ... [none-for-homepage]

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Black Intellectuals and White Audiences

Stephen Twilley — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 15:00:18 +0000

For more than a century, black intellectuals have been asked to play the role of indigenous interpreters who can explain blackness to white America.

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Justice for “Data Janitors”

Stephen Twilley — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:00:31 +0000

What is at stake in hiding the delivery people, stockroom workers, content moderators, and call-center operators laboring to produce the automated experience?

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On Accelerationism

Stephen Twilley — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 15:00:56 +0000

At a time when the future seems to belong to Chicago-school economists and the internet to Google and the NSA, a new movement calls to reimagine left politics from top to bottom.

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“Somewhere in This Brain”: Memories of Segregation, Soul Music & “Macbeth” with Al Bell

Imani Radney — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 16:00:34 +0000

"A song was written through me, and I say that because I didn't write it. The words were given to me."[none-for-homepage]

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The Dark Matter of Digital Health

Stephen Twilley — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:00:10 +0000

Digital health is solidifying the divide between those whose health is valued and those whose health is ignored.

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Counterhistories of the Sport Stadium

Annie Galvin — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:00:47 +0000

As large spaces where different sectors of the city converge, stadiums are sites of social and political struggle.

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Pandemic Syllabus

Stephen Twilley — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:00:17 +0000

Disease has never been merely a biological phenomenon. Instead, all illnesses—including COVID-19—are social problems for humans to solve.

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Merit Must Fall

Annie Galvin — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:00:03 +0000

What does “merit” mean in a context—like India—where caste pervades public life?

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