Travis Mushett is an activist, writer of fiction and non-fiction, student of social movements, and PhD candidate in communications at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Manufacturing Dissension: What the Atlantic Gets Wrong About Occupy
“Where outspokenly right-wing papers like the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune tarred the anti-war movement with the reputation of its most pro-Communist elements, the New York Times and CBS News tended to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate forms of protest, then to show … Continue reading
A Sunday Collage II
“I am sure you know what Paul de Man says about insight and blindness. His theory has to do with an insight that can actually obscure other things, that can be a blindness. And the reverse, also, how what seems … Continue reading
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Tagged collage, Dan Belini, Occupy, OWS, Stephen Duncombe, Teju Cole, The Invisible Committee, The Lettrist International
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Arab Spring, American Autumn, Global Spring
Guy Fawkes graffiti in Zamalek, Cairo. I’ve been home from my excursion to Egypt and the Netherlands for a few days now, long enough to let a few of my thoughts coalesce into something approaching coherence. The trip left me … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, Egypt, Globalization, Imagination, Occupy, Occupy Amsterdam, Solidarity, Street Art
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Traces of a Revolution: Some Snapshots from Cairo
It’s 8:28am in Cairo right now. One of the upsides of changing time zones is that it’s remarkably easy break from the less healthy aspects in your routine (say, staying up past 3am and sleeping till after 10 most days). … Continue reading
In Which an Aging Pop-Punk Outfit Inspires Reflections on Nostalgia
Blink-182, then and now. It wasn’t until “Grantland’s Rough Guide to Parties in Movies” inspired a not-atypical bout of Wikipedia-ing this afternoon (Can’t Hardly Wait –> Blink-182 –>Neighborhoods [Blink-182 album]) that I realized that the favorite band of my 15-year-old … Continue reading
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Tagged Blink-182, music, navel gazing, nostalgia, Snellville, William Faulkner
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A Sunday Collage
“The positive significance of the modern decomposition and destruction of all art is that the language of communication has been lost. The negative implication of this development is that a common language can no longer take the form of the … Continue reading
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Tagged collage, Free City, Guy Debord, Ivan Illich, New York Times, Occupy, OWS, The Diggers
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Introducing the “Journal for Occupied Studies”
Pic courtesy of 90.9 WBUR. It looks like Tidal has some competition. Today I stumbled across the Journal for Occupied Studies, a project that “springs from the New School for Social Research in New York City but which fills its … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, Journal of Occupied Studies, journals, Occupy, OWS, Tidal
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