HIV Vaccine possible

by | Feb 18, 2007 | Neoliberalism

It’s been widely thought that the reason that HIV/AIDS was so hard to fight was that it morphed…changing shape in a way that prevented standard approaches to dealing with disease.  As soon as you develop a method of dealing with one form, another form...

The New Black Man Meets Sisters in Comics

by | Feb 17, 2007 | Afrofuturism

So I’m watching Sweetback’s Badass Song for the Black Power Fantasies course I am co-teaching with Stanford Carpenter. What we don’t really have a handle on is how transformative the black power period was. There are a whole set of propositions that...

Late night power tools

by | Feb 15, 2007 | Neoliberalism

I’ve been meaning to do something like this for a while now. No time like the present: Compendium of Public Radio Podcasts –Access to over 900 public radio programs throughout the globe. 45 Free Cutting Edge Books–Many authors are starting to release...

To the Break of Dawn–the aesthetics of hip-hop

by | Feb 13, 2007 | Hip-hop | 2 comments

cobb book signing04.JPG Originally uploaded by Unbowed. There are a whole range of works that deal with the politics of hip-hop. Given the freight placed on hip-hop as a social/political movement, this is understandable. Hell, I’m at work as we speak on my own...