vain•glory

“We read to know we're not alone.”

3.1.22 We’re in March already?? My February was a whirlwind of midterm cramming, spontaneous dinner with friends, and brief trips to museums. As enjoyable as last month was, I’m hoping to use this new month to try again to establish a weekly routine.

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & economy

what coming out of the ‘caste closet’ was like

world food prices are climbing closer toward a record high

i was surrounded by ‘final girls’ in school, knowing i’d never be one (usa)

petrópolis: a perfect storm of weather extremes and deep inequality (brazil)

gender & sexuality

why were scientists so slow to study covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?

bimbofication is taking over. what does that mean for you?

hollywood played a role in hypersexualising asian women

politics, climate change, & covid

‘whatever horrors they do, they do in secret’: inside the taliban’s return to power (afghanistan)

the vietnamese workers japan depends on are falling through the cracks

britain’s ownership of the chagos islands has no basis, mauritius is right to claim them

despite climate goals, europe’s 25 largest banks continue to invest billions in oil and gas

history, culture, & media

‘i remember the feeling of insult’: when britain imprisoned its wartime refugees

archaeologists in egypt discover 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’

the good place and bojack horseman died as they lived

‘death knows no colour’: the forgotten african soldiers of wwii

ukraine

i’m in kyiv and awake at the darkest hour – as putin’s bombs rain down

dictators aren’t pretending anymore

‘the hope is finished’: life in the ukrainian separatist regions of donetsk and luhansk

how suicide became the hidden toll of the war in ukraine

Books

Beautiful world, where are you by Sally Rooney

Circe by Madeline Miller

Stolen by Grace Blakeley (reading in progress)

Sputnik sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Papers

Frantz Fanon; Reason and Violence by Immanuel Wallerstein

From Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture by Charles E. Cobb Jr.

Marxism-Leninism and Nkrumahism by Kwame Ture

Nietzsche's Reading and Private Library; from 1885-89 by Thomas Brobjer

The Man Who Didn't Exist; The Strange Case of Louis Althusser by Lewis S. Kirshner

Vernacular Values by Ivan Illich

articles (thanks once again @apricitystudies for these article recs)

Pakistan’s biometric ID scheme is stripping citizenship from thousands of people by Alizeh Kohari

06/03/22 10:00

we’re a week into march and 💀 bruh the vibes are weird get it away from me

whose migrant mother was this? the story of the native american woman who became the face of the 1930s depression (and got almost nothing for it)

bauhaus design is everywhere, but its roots are political how even a simple choice between what font to use can be a political act

edvard munch: what a cigarette means munch + tobacco = art? (yes we’re still on the topic of art as a political weapon)

art that was never finished how great masters sometimes even didn’t finish stuff. also! the history behind the colour aquamarine

fka twigs on mary magdalene (if you like asmr you’re gonna love this)

having a coke with frank ohara (technically not art history but this video is too good for me not to mention)

video postcard: woman at her toilette a quick dive into my favourite painting of woman impressionist berthe morisot

this documentary about georgia o´keeffe (that ive seen about 10 times)

who’s afraid of modern art: vandalism, video games, and fascism about the meaning of modern art and the publics response to it, as well as a political campaign to eradicate it or moreso make an example of the so-called ‘undesirable’ nature of their art

how to make communist art on the future prospects of art for art’s sake and creativity outside of capitalist restraints

Brigsby Bear, nostalgia culture and millennial optimism a little off topic but an essay about a film that questions our need to attach our identities to our past and our childhoods in particular, questionning whether we should put our faith into recreating our old loves or creating new ones - i think its relevant based on the films perspective on art

03.03.22 ~ 19/100 days of productivity

Academic Achilleus: your argument is pretty indisputable and strong- except for that one weak spot that could take it (and you) to the grave.

Academic Ulysses: you are soooo close to your conclusion but somehow something always leads you astray. you have been writing this paper for what feels like 10 years. the gods are against you

2022.02.24 // 16:27  espresso and a new york city winter’s day

2.19.22

Sorry for being so inactive! I got elected to residence hall council this semester and joined the debate team so that’s all eating my time up. A lot of my class work is writing this semester so I’m really enjoying it.

How are your class going so far?