Burt Reynolds died today. He was 82.
Romance Without Finance (310/485)
Little Rock 1959 (310/485)
I take the image below as visual confirmation of Taylor’s claims here:
From Occupied Territory (310/415/485)
I haven’t screened this documentary yet but in his recent book Race, Class, and Marxism David Roediger writes that it is a striking account of the ways that race and for-profit policing intersect. Let’s watch it this weekend and talk about it next week.
By Other Means (310/485)
Solid (455)
Here’s the link.
Take 5 minutes and write about Boulos’s film and the concept of geographical imaginary.
Indomitable (310/415/455/485)
This is a useful discussion of the Communist Manifesto from a book review by Terry Eagleton at https://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n05/terry-eagleton/indomitable
“Indomitable” (excerpts) by Terry Eagleton
In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to argue. By 1986, most of them no longer felt that way. What had happened in the meanwhile? Were these people now buried under a pile of toddlers? Had Marxism been unmasked as bogus by some world-shaking new research? Had someone stumbled on a lost manuscript by Marx confessing that it was all a joke?
