![]() Unknown to us, in her ground-breaking book, Caliban and The Witch, Silvia Federici argues that the witch hunts of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries served to create and enforce a newly established role in society for women, who were consigned to unpaid reproductive labour to satisfy the needs of an ascendant capitalist order. After school we concocted potions, conducted rituals and created secret languages. ![]() As ambitious teen girls wary of how we were perceived in the adult world, we sought solace in the idea that we could harness a secret and subversive power to change things. Years before we knew what feminism was, a sense of foreboding had developed among us, about our place in the world and our power relative to adults and to our male peers. ![]() In high school, like many young women, my friends and I developed a fascination with witches. Republished from Progress in Political Economy. ![]()
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When t ick…tick…Boom! finally opened at the Jane Street Theater in 2001, one of the musical’s producers was Victoria Leacock, one of Larson’s closest friends. He put aside tick…tick…Boom! when he started writing Rent, and it never had a theatrical run until five years after his death. Larson wrote tick…tick…Boom! In 1989, when he was on the verge of turning 30. I’d prefer to celebrate his life.Ī previous show, before Rent, was autobiographical, and when it had a posthumous off-Broadway premiere and an RCA recording, it gave us a look at his career. Jonathan Larson is mostly remembered for his untimely death just as his creation, Rent, was about to open. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bantry immediately called up Miss Jane Marple, saying she knew she was good at murders, and Dolly Bantry was determined to play amateur sleuth with Miss Marple’s help. It was a maid who discovered the body in the library first thing in the morning, and woke Dolly Bantry. Bantry, old friends of Miss Marple’s, and she added the cast as a recipe for a mystery. She put it in Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Because so many of think of Agatha Christie as creating so many elements we now see as common tropes in mysteries, I never expected her to say “the body in the library” was a mystery cliche, and she was just waiting for the right library to come along to use in one of her books. I didn’t know she ever wrote forewords to her mysteries. I was surprised to find a foreword from Christie in this book. ![]() I love the cover of The Body in the Library. And, there’s so much I missed when I first read these books when I was in high school. If the Miss Marple mysteries by Agatha Christie hadn’t been redesigned, I probably wouldn’t have gone back to read the early books. ![]() ![]() One of my big arguments in the book is that the tools that I’m talking about are more evolution than revolution. Virginia Eubanks: Often when we talk about new technologies, we talk about them as “disruptors”-things that shake up the system that we're in right now. Tanvi Misra: In your book, you lay out the troublesome history of poverty-management systems: from hellish “ poorhouses” to the scientific charity movement, the New Deal welfare apparatus to the automation of welfare. The conversation that follows has been edited for length and clarity. I recently spoke with Eubanks to about some of the main themes in her book. Eubanks examines these technologies, detailing the ways they can sometimes compromise the rights of the very people they supposedly help. ![]() Automated systems that gauge eligibility for Medicaid and food stamps, databases that match homeless people to resources, and statistical tools that detect cases of child abuse all hold the potential to revolutionize welfare programs. ![]() ![]() In it, Eubanks studies some of the seemingly neutral-and even well-meaning-technologies that promise to streamline the U.S. ![]() It’s this speech that Virginia Eubanks, an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY, comes back to at the end of her new book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. ![]() ![]() ![]() But unfortunately I didn’t get to play all of that, so we’ll have to wait and see. George, I talked to him during Season 1 and he did say to me that Barristan had a very interesting journey. So if all goes well, in another month or two we might get Books 6 and 7, and I’m intrigued to know how Barristan, for instance, ends up going through those final two books. “But he struck an agreement with David and Dan, the showrunners on the series, that he would not publish the final two books until the series has completed. “George has already written Books 6 and 7, and as far as he’s concerned there only are seven books,” the actor reportedly said. Subscribe to Observer’s Entertainment Newsletter Martin has dropped a few hints on how he’s coming with his new novel, The Winds of Winter, the sixth in the A Song of Ice and Fire saga that formed the basis of HBO ’s Game. He claimed that Martin has already finished the final two books but struck an agreement with HBO not to publish them until after the show has ended, reports Collider. Former Game of Thrones star Ian McElhinney-who played Ser Barristan Selmy, a character from the series who is notably still alive in the books-made some shocking comments recently at the Epic Con convention, which took place this past April. ![]() ![]() ![]() What, oh what, will these bears do!? Buy it here. That is, until an inhospitable herd of cows forces them to move on - and that’s just the start of a series of rejections. At first, they are scared (who wouldn’t be!?), but relief sets in when they finally reach land. When she first shared these kid-friendly reads on Instagram Stories, our followers begged for more.Ī trio of polar bears finds themselves drifting out to sea in the French author’s simple, colorful book. ![]() She also wanted to remind them of the importance of making others feel welcome and loved in the world - and in their day-to-day lives. With the recent events concerning refugees in our country, our founder, Paula, wanted to sit down with her children and give them a glimpse into some refugee stories. Reading is proven to open our minds and help us empathize with other people. When we need to teach our children - or ourselves, for that matter - about a complex topic, we at GAIA turn to books. ![]() ![]() ![]() The edition’s primary aim is two-fold: to produce a newly edited critical text based on exhaustive analysis of all known manuscript and significant print sources of Donne’s poetry to present a complete digest of critical and scholarly commentary on the poetry from Donne’s time to the present. ![]() The project was organized in 1980 and has enjoyed support from the National Endowment for the Humanities since 1986. DigitalDonne constitutes volume 1 of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (8 vols. in 11 parts, Indiana UP, 1995-), a collaborative edition drawing on the labors of over 30 scholars from the United States and abroad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Teo, a seventeen-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of the goddess of birds, isn't worried about the Trials. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all-they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body melted down to refuel the Sun Stones, protecting the world for another ten years. Sol selects ten of the most worthy semidioses to compete in the Sunbearer Trials. I’m not a real hero.”Īs each new decade begins, the Sun’s power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the chaotic Obsidian gods at bay. “Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. ![]() ![]() Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task. ![]() Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. ![]() |