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Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “targeted closures” of “Moscow-backed” religious organizations in...

To illustrate the claims in this book, I rely on three primary metaphors throughout….The second is of history as molten glass. At present, society is still malleable and can be blown into many shapes. But at some point, the glass might cool, set, and become much harder to change. The resulting shape could be beautiful […]

"Finally, we'll no longer be treated as a fringe movement"

We can now count the Australian builders who lost their lives following Coalition calls to deregulate that dangerous industry. read now...

Today’s Sunday cartoon, above, is from a time when Moses was younger than the gray-haired, Charlton Heston version so many folks are familiar with.

The BBC's Doctor Who confirmed that filming has begun, with Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday readying for Series 14.

For the Race, Place & Critical Theory Reading Group, convened by Dallas Rogers, my role was to act as a reader of the final main chapter and coda of Abdoumaliq Simone’s The Surrounds: Urban Life within and Beyond Capture. Here is my write up of that reading.

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So here we are. We are surrounded.

In the Coda to Abdoumaliq Simone’s book The Surrounds comes the definition of the surrounds as ‘a space of exception’, or as ‘a shape-shifting matrix of spaces, times, and practices that exist right now within the turbulent processes of contemporary urbanisation’. Earlier in the text, instead of envisioning urbanism as the unfolding of definitive forces of value capture, asset creation, and resource extraction, he defines the surrounds as ‘a liminal interstice in between multiple, diverging trajectories of urbanisation that are always in the process of being sutured, more or less’, but always in an unsettled relation.

What are the major themes in the final main chapter of the book and how has “doing time” with this text been?

Cooking time: 6-8 hoursPreparation time: 45 mins.Main cooking utensils: 1 or 2 ovenproof bowls, foil or wax paper For 12-16 servings:1 cup all-purpose flour1 cup fresh soft bread crumbs1 teaspoon each mixed spice, cinnamon, and nutmegScant cup shredded suet½ cup brown sugar1 dessert apple, grated1 small carrot, grated¾ cup chopped candied peel2 eggsScant cup currants1⅓ […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. Failure comes in many forms, but I’m especially interested in situations in which people *perceive* something as failing (or about to fail) and the contestations over failure that often arise in such situations. Given this, it’s hard not to be fascinated by all that’s unfolding around Twitter. […]

“I haven’t read the Constitution, but, from what I’ve been told, most of it is a waste of paper, quite frankly.”

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Imagine growing up in a New York City library, where you could wander the stacks and read late into the night. Ronald did

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Patients with eating disorders who feel overweight are often told that the underlying cause is emotional. What if it’s not?

- by Stephen Gadsby & Bence Nanay

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