Resources for December 2, 2013

"You have come for knowledge. There will be pleasure. Because knowledge is sexy. There will also be pain. Because knowledge is torture." - Jeff Noon in his novel Vurt (1993)





Kevin Brown interviews for History for the Future:

Historian Joseph McCartin on "Public Sector Unions and Worker Rights in Wisconsin"

Historian Nell Irving Painter on "The History of White People"


John Waters for Artforum: Best Films of 2013 list

Carrie McAlinden for Sight and Sound on the magazine's choice for best film of 2013: "True surrealism: Walter Benjamin and The Act of Killing"

Graham Daseler for Bright Lights Film Journal: "The Fall of the House of Warner: The Warner Brothers."





“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.” ― Mario Savio, December 2, 1964

Joshua Keating for Slate provides the newest in a series -- "This is the fourth installment of a continuing series in which American events are described using the tropes and tone normally employed by the American media to describe events in other countries.": "If It Happened There … America’s Annual Festival Pilgrimage Begins"