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Version I The Break-Up Letter by Alisse Waterston [Writing time: approximately 3.5 hours, maybe a little longer] Karel, Your letter arrived and, not surprisingly, it’s filled with your usual rants, confusions, self-absorption, and serious narcissism. I’ve had enough. Enough of you. Enough of this sorry thing called our marriage. Enough of my own delusions about …
During his speech at the Memorial Day of Remembrance (Yom HaZikaron) ceremony for Israel’s fallen soldiers on 20 April 2026, [1] South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein attacked Pope Leo for daring to condemn US-Israeli military aggression in Iran and reject the sanctification of war by MAGA figures such as US Secretary of War, Pete …
The winners of the Public Anthropologist Award 2026 are Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips for their book Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel
Last December, we walked through the red-brick corridors of the Alipore Jail Museum and entered an exhibition titled The Babu and the Bazaar: Art from 19th and Early 20th-Century Bengal. At first glance, it appeared to be a familiar archive of colonial Calcutta. It’s babus, courtesans, deities, print cultures, and bazaar economies. But in the …
Continue reading “Time as Capital, Time as Cosmos: Kalighat and the Politics of Waiting”
Solidarity as practice, not posture
Fragments on Trees & Ireland
An academic’s office. A chair and a desk with a colourful scarf as table cloth. On the desk, a laptop, reading lamp, and a few books. Hanging on the back of the chair, a black shawl. In the corner, a cardboard box of notebooks.
This blog post is part of the Seminar Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience, April 10, 2025, funded by the WARFUN project. I love the Norse mythology. I really do, and the idea is just fucking great that when we die, we go to the Great Hall [of Odin] to drink and fight, right? I think that’s …
Continue reading “Once Were Vikings: Danish Soldiers on the Pride in (Lost) Glory”