I wasn’t able to make it to San Quentin for the protest/vigil. Yesterday was a revisitation of that nightmarish feeling of guilt by impotence — the same feeling I felt during the lead-up to the war in Iraq: You know that you’re about to be party to something truly horrific, and there’s nothing you can [...]

Call Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at (916)445-2841 to ask that he grant Stan Tookie Williams clemency.

I haven’t had time to read this yet, but neither have I seen it mentioned anywhere else in the anthropologosphere, and it struck me as the sort of thing others out there might be interested in. Before PRISP, there was… well, there was a lot of stuff: administrative assistance for colonial governments, spying in times [...]

It’s a simulacrum of a dialogue in a simulation of journalism. I’m trying to decide my favourite part: It might be ‘So you don’t think that the U.S. invaded Iraq to spread freedom?’ See, ’cause, I totally thought Baudrillard would think that…
For those of you who don’t read high-falutin’ French logorrhoea (after all, as Baudrillard [...]

Never before been to Toward Freedom, but they’re running an interview with David Graeber, today. For those of you not in the know, David Graeber is an anarchist anthropologist who’s been denied tenure at Yale. Savage Minds did a piece on Graeber back in May. There’s been little news on his case since that time.

Roy launches fast unto death against violence in Assam
[Sunday, November 20, 2005 05:56:00 pmPTI]
DIPHU (ASSAM): Noted anthropologist B K Roy Burman on Sunday launched a fast unto death in Assam’s strife-torn Karbi Anglong district where 14 houses of Dimasa tribals were torched on Saturday.
Roy Burman, who is on a peace mission to the ethnic [...]

In a post from Sunday, I took Home Depot to task, and, among other claims, indicated that co-chairman of the board Bernard Marcus was also on the board of Emet News Service. A person claiming to be the owner and publisher of Emet has posted a comment indicating that Mr. Marcus is, in fact, not [...]

Wednesday, I went with my friend Erin of LiP Magazine to a reading at City Lights bookstore from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz‘ memoir of the Contra War Blood on the Border. Dunbar-Ortiz was a member of the American Indian Movement and has been a feminist and anti-war activist. Blood on the Border is her third memoir, following [...]

Of all the political events of this past Tuesday, that which interested me the most was a 6-5 decision by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to allow Home Depot to proceed with its plans to open a store in the Bayview/Hunter’s Point neighbourhood.

The more I read, the more uneasy theory makes me. Abstraction tends to obscure individuality, which tends not only to mask over the most interesting aspects of human behaviour, but also to dehumanise subjects, allowing many kinds of oppression and violence. Thus, a post-modern philosophical blog like Long Sunday tends to make me a little [...]