Congratulations to Robin Bernstein, whose article in ST 101, "Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race" has won the Research and Publication Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society and the 2010 Association for Theater in Higher Education award for Outstanding Article in a Journal.... >>

One day a very well known Internet theorist writes a rant on women. The rant generates controversy, controversy lands theorist on WNYC (On the Media), despite the fact the he does not really work on the politics of gender. If this is so, why then give him more air time and focus on the NPR show? There are three lessons that precipitate from this social fact that are worth highlighting: 1.The fact that NPR chose him to pontificate and not... a woman nullifies Shirky's thesis that behavior is one of the most important factors in keeping women behind, unless of course NPR asked a bunch of women but they were too meek to be on the air (not likely).... >>

If anyone claims that "geek" or hacker politics is x (x usually being some version of libertarianism), I wouldn't buy it. In fact, just like any sphere and arena, geek politics are remarkably varied. >>

Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era, by Heather Gautney, details the history of the alter-globalization protests over the last decade and the attempts by various groups on the global left to build alternatives to neoliberal development through the mechanism of the World Social Forum. >>

Two days ago the Supreme Court issued what is perhaps its most calamitous ruling in a century. >>