Alex Sayf Cummings's Blog, page 20
March 27, 2020
Rethinking the Creative City with Julian Chambliss
While working on Brain Magnet, I got the chance to sit down for a chat…
March 25, 2020
Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part II
As Fresno’s flu outbreak passed the one-week mark, the virus’s deadly potential started to come…
The Creativity Divide: Exploring the Relationship between Creativity and Privilege
Schools are supposed to prize creativity, but Sharon Murchie argues that standardization and poverty stand in the way of freeing all students to be creative.
March 23, 2020
The ICC's Authorization to Investigate Crimes in Afghanistan Is a Step Forward for International Justice
On March 5th, 2020, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) authorized Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate into alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Afghanistan.
March 22, 2020
Coronavirus, Racism, and the Health of Our Communities
The ugly spectre of anti-Asian racism, a mainstay of American history, is back in an even more intense and vicious form in the age of Corona.
March 21, 2020
Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the "Spanish" Flu Pandemic in Real Time
In our new series, historian Ethan J. Kytle follows the 1918-19 flu epidemic in Fresno, CA, as it was chronicled in local newspapers and other primary sources.
March 20, 2020
Shelter in Place: Reading Bachelard During the Quarantine
Gaston Bachelard's 1958 classic The Poetics of Space offers a fresh way of thinking about our increasingly cloistered existences.
The University of California Does Not Exist: Conflict, Cancellation, and New Horizons for (Collective) Digital Workplace Disruption
A wave of wildcat strikes continues to spread across University of California campuses. They began…
March 19, 2020
Hospice of the Creative Class
The coronavirus crisis shows that an economy that only rewards and protects the most privileged workers is vulnerable to collapse.
March 18, 2020
Adventures in the Aftermath of “Adventures in Publishing Outside the Gates”
The white publishing industry locks arms to form a united front against writers and critics of color -- proving the critics' point, again and again.
