Book Review: Unpacking ...

Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession by Haggai Ram. Stanford University Press (2009).In the context of frequent rhetorical sparring and escalating threats of nuclear destruction, little common ground is said to exist between Israel and Iran. Enmity between the two states is often framed as the product of irreconcilable geopolitical, ideological, and strategic differences. Iran’s support of terrorist organizations that seek Israel’s destruction, the regime’s religious character, and supposedly anti-Semitic leadership all appear to ensure confrontation between the two states.

Book Review: Radical Im...

Imaginal Machines by Stevphen Shukaitis. Autonomedia (2009).At every level, Imaginal Machines is a subversive text. Against the rising tide of complacency, Stephven Shukaitis sketches out new possibilities for political engagement that are at once seditious and savvy.

Book Review: “A Q...

Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World by Joshua Poteat. The University of Georgia Press (2009).In 1851, the same year Moby-Dick was published and the first World’s Fair was held in London, German engraver and printer J.G. Heck published his Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science. The scientific revolution that began in the mid-sixteenth century was over and science had assumed its modern form.

Future Still Uncertain ...

"Christians and other minority groups have also been the targets of choice in Kirkuk of late. While the violence there has not exhibited the same characteristics of systematized execution as in Mosul, the results have been no less horrific. Most recently, insurgent groups have carried out attacks on Christian businessmen, and have continued their practice of assassinating municipal security forces, routine violence which has claimed the lives of hundreds of police officers over the past few years."

Whose University?

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Last November, as many of you will no doubt remember, students and faculty at the University of California staged a series of protests and building takeovers in response to the UC...