Convergence / Vol. 2 No. 4“Movement and Resistance” provides the theme of the fall issue of the A-Line. Where in the world has there not been movement over the last year from Beirut to Hong Kong, from Seattle and Portland to Kenosha and Minneapolis for one reason or another? What they all appear to have […]
Arts & Culture / Convergence / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 4June 24 Every once in a while well maybe not every when the wind is especially fierce there’s a rawness without sorrow or wound, shouted into storm, the low the high the good the bad. Well maybe not bad but it feels that way, like a slap across the face […]
Arts & Culture / Convergence / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 4Testimonial Testify For a time, in some places, only men could testify. “Testify” rooted with testes testicles. Tongue tied to crotch; talk of truth as— biology. Biblical Abraham had his servant swear a solid: “put your hand under my thigh, and I […]
Convergence / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 4Backs might have been breaking in Louisville, in Portland, and in Kenosha, when the ghosts of Black radicalism were called upon once again to bridge the chasm between the liberal democratic tradition of representative democracy and the radical demand for abolition democracy.1 By late summer 2020, that demand had municipal […]
Convergence / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 4(for Mike Ladd) Modern politicians tend to fawn over entrepreneurs and disparage state action. But once in power, even the most radical free-market ideologues practice a form of bastardized Hamiltonianism. This reflects an important historical truth: capitalism is produced and reproduced by the state. –Christian Parenti, Radical Hamilton (174)1 Finally, […]
Arts & Culture / Climate / Convergence / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 4the roses too/ bloomed red that year/ at the wrong time/ (far too early)/ a warning/ (which once again we refused to heed)/ thus against the fields of white frost,/ they were as though stigmata/ (breaking a holy flesh)/ earth signs, bloodletting/ animals at night/ injuring one another/ (my father […]
Arts & Culture / Politics / The Reading Room / Vol. 2 No. 4The first time that I heard the word “otolith” was in a brief video from the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London. In it, their “curator of fish,” James Maclaine, demonstrated the new scanning technology that would allow him to examine the undigested stomach contents of the Museum’s rare, preserved […]
Arts & Culture / Politics / The Reading Room / Vol. 2 No. 4As in the United States and England, statues have been toppled and street names debated in Canada. The statue of John A. Macdonald came down in Montreal on August 29, 2020. Ma(d)Donald you ask? Well, in this case, the first prime minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891), associated with completion of […]
Arts & Culture / Politics / The Reading Room / Vol. 2 No. 4I remember reading Black feminist scholar Audre Lorde’s essay “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference,” and I was captivated by her use of the capitalization of Black, Color/ed, Black women, Black lesbianism, and Black men throughout the essay, while at the same time demoting “white” and “america” to […]
Convergence / Vol. 2 No. 3The announcement of this issue was circulated some months ago, but these past weeks have reassured the editors of the necessity of an enterprise seeking to draw together the best of contemporary progressive thought in order to provide the intellectual and emotional sustenance we need to survive this enormous contraction, […]