Alex Sayf Cummings's Blog, page 21
March 16, 2020
Warren Endorses Sanders
The endorsement is a long-awaited vindication for the Democratic Party's left flank.
March 15, 2020
“Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothin’ Left to Lose”: Janis Joplin, the Mistaken Icon of the Counterculture
The counterculture dictum to “turn on, tune in, drop out” did not quite capture Janis’s philosophy to “get it while you can.”
March 13, 2020
An Asian Man Who Likes Math: Anti-Asian Misandry and Transformative Hospitality
The media did not take Andrew Yang's path-breaking and radical campaign seriously. Seulghee Lee explains why so many got Yang so wrong.
March 5, 2020
Of Abject Fathers and Angry Mothers: Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing
Chia-Chia Lin’s novel captures the bittersweet flavor of Asian-American dreams – those broken and realized alike.
February 25, 2020
Blinded by the White: The Colonised Imaginations of Gurinder Chadha and Sarfraz Manzoor
Like most of her work, Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light parades as a paean to diversity and inclusion while reinforcing white supremacy.
February 23, 2020
Where’s the Responsibility? Donna Rotunno and How We Teach Moral Philosophy
Philosopher and librarian Tony Corsentino ponders how you negotiate repugnant views in the classroom -- and the courtroom.
Where's the Responsibility? Donna Rotunno and How We Teach Moral Philosophy
Philosopher and librarian Tony Corsentino ponders how you negotiate repugnant views in the classroom -- and the courtroom.
‘Parasite’ Is the First Sexual Critique of Capitalism
Even as it is a critique of capitalism, Bong Joon-ho’s film is also an immediate, sexual object under capitalism.
February 20, 2020
Shake That Cola, Make That COLA!: The UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strike and the Shape of What’s To Come
Irony prevails when the person formerly in charge of the Empire’s security apparatus, which kidnapped and deported upwards of 2 million people under her reign, is now threatening to fire a bunch of bookworms and science enthusiasts for withholding grades.
February 17, 2020
Reading Colonialism in “Parasite”
The more Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece is regarded, the more it seems to vanish in the spectacle of its acclaim.
