Monthly Archives: September 2009

CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES ll

Posted on September 30, 2009 by mattgonzalez

Detail from an installation, The Ten Commandments, at Deitch Projects in New York City by Keith Haring, 2009 (original panels 1985). Photo by 16 Miles of String. CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, PART TWO by Peter Gabel II. … Continue reading →

Posted in Peter Gabel | Tagged 30 Years Later Cake and Credit Cards in Saigon, A Day in the Life, Alan Freeman, Anthony Cook, Auguries of Innocence, Bernard Weinraub, Beyond Critical Legal Studies: The Reconstructive Theology of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Beyt Tikkun, Bob Dylan, Building Power and Breaking Images: Critical Legal Theory and the Practice of Law, Duncan Kennedy, Judicial Deradicalization of the Wagner Act and the Origins of Modern Legal Consciousness, Karl Klare, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement, Legitimizing Racial Discrimination Through Antidiscrimination Law, Mary Joe Frug, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Paul Harris, Racial Suffering as Human Suffering: An Existentially-Grounded Humanity Consciousness as a Guide to a Fourteenth Amendment Reborn, Re-reading Contracts: A Feminist Analysis of a Contracts Casebook, Rhonda Magee Andrews, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning, The Beatles, The Phenomenology of Rights-Consciousness and the Pact of the Withdrawn Selves, The Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries, The Times They Are A-Changin', William Blake, William Forbath | 1 Comment

WILFRED OWEN

Posted on September 29, 2009 by mattgonzalez

Holographic manuscript of Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen LETTER TO SUSAN OWEN — APRIL 25, 1917 by Wilfred Owen To Susan Owen 25 April 1917 A Coy., My Cellar My own dearest Mother, Immediately after I sent my … Continue reading →

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CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES

Posted on September 28, 2009 by mattgonzalez

Posted in Peter Gabel | Tagged A Critique of Adjudication (fin de siecle), A Left Phenomenological Alternative to the Hart/Kelsen Theory of Legal Interpretation, Bush v. Gore, Bush v. Gore II, Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd., Cain's Law, Clare Dalton, Dissemination, Duncan Kennedy, Elizabeth Mensch, Gary Peller, Indeterminacy critique, Jacques Derrida, Joseph William Singer, Louis B. Schwartz, Matthew Wilkes, Michael Lerner, Michael McAvoy, Nanette Schorr, New College of California, Of Law and the River, Paul D. Carrington, Pepperdine Law Review, Project for Integrating Spirituality Law Politics, Richard A. Posner, Sanford Levinson, The player and the Cards: Nihilism and Legal Theory, The Politics of Law, The Problems of Jurisprudence, Tikkun magazine, Wtih Gun and Camera Through Darkest CLS-Land | 1 Comment

EVE TOLIMAN

Posted on September 25, 2009 by mattgonzalez

Photograph by Gene Ark JUST NOW by Eve Toliman “Nothing gets easier with the passage of time, not even the passing of time.” Joyce Carol Oates The scent of orange blossoms, the long autumn shadows across the floor, the cracked … Continue reading →

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U.S. CENSUS

Posted on September 24, 2009 by mattgonzalez

Immigrant Rights March, Los Angeles, March 25, 2006. Photograph by Bob Chamberlin, Los Angeles Times. U.S. CENSUS — WHY I WON’T COOPERATE by Nativo Vigil Lopez After thirty years of dutifully cooperating with the census count, and even enthusiastically promoting … Continue reading →

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IN MEMORIAM D.F.S.

Posted on September 23, 2009 by mattgonzalez

DON FUCKING STEELE (1971-2009) by Charles Gonzalez San Francisco lost a giant in the cultural and music scene this weekend when Don Steele tragically passed away. Things will not be the same without this man’s awesome presence and incredible vibe. … Continue reading →

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MINIMA MORALIA, No. 6

Posted on September 22, 2009 by mattgonzalez

Theodor Adorno & Heinrich Boll, Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, 1964. MINIMA MORALIA: Reflections from the damaged life. By THEODOR ADORNO PART ONE: 1944. Aphorism #6: Antithesis. Translated by Dennis Redmond 6 Antithesis. – For those who do not play along, … Continue reading →

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THE ART OF FAILURE: POETRY IN TRANSLATION

Posted on September 21, 2009 by mattgonzalez

[This piece first appeared in a somewhat abbreviated form in Poet's Market 2010.] THE ART OF FAILURE: POETRY IN TRANSLATION by Okla Elliott “Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different … Continue reading →

Posted in Okla Elliott | Tagged A Public Space, Absinthe, Alan Shapiro, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Calvalcanti, Center for Book Culture, Circumference, couplets, Dante, David Slavitt, Earl of Surrey, Eugen Jebeleanu, free verse, Giacomo da Lentini, Gregory Rabassa, Gunter Grass, Henry Howard, Indiana Review, International Poetry Review, John Biguenet, Jurgen Becker, Larissa Volokhonsky, Mark Smith-Soto, Matthew Zapruder, Natural Bridge, New Letters, Ninth Letter, Northwestern University Press, Oderbruch, Pablo Neruda, Paul Auster, Peter Burian, Petrarch, Poetry International, Rainer Schulte, Red Hen Press, Richard Pevear, sestinas, Sheep Meadow Press, The Bitter Oleander, The Craft of Translation, The Literary Review, The Pajamaist, Theories of Translation, Ugly Duckling Presse, University of Chicago Press, villanelles | 2 Comments

WITNESS IN PALESTINE

Posted on September 18, 2009 by mattgonzalez

A demonstration in Bil’ain. Photobucket photo by phalistine. PLANTING TREES WITH “THE PALESTINIAN GANDHI” by Anna Baltzer Two winters ago I attended a demonstration in the village of Bil’ain in protest of the Wall that Israel was building between the … Continue reading →

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IS INFIDELITY THE END OF THE MARRIAGE?

Posted on September 17, 2009 by askladyesq

ASK LADY ESQ. Relationship advice from a divorce attorney. Dear Lady Esq., My wife of twelve years recently disclosed to me that two years ago she had an affair with a co-worker that lasted for three months. I had no … Continue reading →

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