Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about the burgeoning (more like explosion) of global youth culture, a “community of youngish people, roughly from 14 to 35, who share a love of mainstream popular culture including music, movies and fashion and acknowledge a shared mindset with others in their age bracket around the world.” I [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2010 by DeepthiW
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I’m not sure why, but I just created the syllabus for a class I just made up called “Intertextual Representations of Resistance and Difference across Global Media.” Of course it could be better, but I’d love to teach it!
Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangaremba
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Season of Migration to the North, [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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I just don’t even know where to begin with how this will change modern life. Just watch and get ready for a glimpse of the future that you didn’t know was coming so very soon, but thanks to Pranav Mistry, has been developed as open source and ready to improve a lot of people’s lives [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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There was an interesting post on Sociological Images (introduced to me by Katharine) about the “Slumdog Shooting technique.” I responded to it because I feel rather strongly that the postcolonial response to imperialist representations in modern media has taken a hypersensitized and cynical turn with the critical response to Slumdog Millionaire which originated the term [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Wes Anderson’s new movie Fantastic Mr. Fox takes a beloved children’s book–his beloved book from childhood I assume–and turns it into a film for adults–I’m hearing tales of kids leaving the theatres disappointed and bewildered. Spike Jones and Dave Eggers transformed Where the Wild Things Are in a very similar vein, bringing the sad weight [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Yes, it is the rather pitiful truth that after swearing off doing mass amounts of free labor post two internships and countless other volunteer projects, the project that broke down my resolve to never again work for free was a labor conference.
Every free moment I’ve had for the past month has been consumed by planning [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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I’ve been looking for Nneka to hit the US off and on for a few years now, and finally got a chance to see her do her live show at Joe’s Pub in lower Manhattan. This is one show I won’t forget in a hurry.
This is what I wrote in KQED’s Mixtape back in April [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Starting at the Cité de l’Immigration and moving on to the Musée du Quai Branly provides a route to understanding how the role of “primitive” art in France has changed over the past couple of decades. Originally the Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens (and where much of the collection for the new Musée du [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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I’m here in Paris for three weeks, in the city of the spectacle. Everywhere I turn to look, there are splendid sights to be savored — the grand boulevards, the graceful buildings carved from pierre de taille, the dynamic crowds of Parisians and visitors who flow through the streets in [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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I’ve only really just encountered the term “decolonization.” Wikipedia says it refers to “the undoing of colonization” or “the achievement of independence by the various Western colonies and protectorates in Asia and Africa following World War II.”
I’ve read a lot of post-colonial literature, and to me, decolonization is a fondly conceived dream which most of [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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