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Oct 25, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Mariana Toro Nader |Lyndsey Stonebridge |Toro Nader
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Lyndsey Stonebridge
“At every meal that we eat together, freedom is invited to sit down. The chair remains vacant, but the place is set,” wrote the French poet and Resistance fighter René Char. Char hadn’t wanted to publish his work during the war. It was a time to stay low. But he had carried on writing throughout, pressed up tight against terror and death. As the Fourth Republic took shape, he wanted to put his experiences on the record and so published Hypnos, from which this aphorism is taken, in 1946.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Lyndsey Stonebridge
“At every meal that we eat together, freedom is invited to sit down. The chair remains vacant, but the place is set,” wrote the French poet and Resistance fighter René Char. Char hadn’t wanted to publish his work during the war. It was a time to stay low. But he had carried on writing throughout, pressed up tight against terror and death. As the Fourth Republic took shape, he wanted to put his experiences on the record and so published Hypnos, from which this aphorism is taken, in 1946.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Lyndsey Stonebridge |Carl Landauer |Chelsea Ebin
On July 23, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris reached the threshold of Democratic National Convention delegates that she needed to become the party’s de facto presidential nominee. In the two days since President Joe Biden had ceded the nomination, a diverse party had become re-energized around the 2024 race and its second, historic, multiracial nominee.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Lyndsey Stonebridge |Val Vinokur |Carl Landauer |Chelsea Ebin
“Destroyed Village, War Front” (1974) | Donald Shaw MacLaughlan / Smithsonian American Art Museum / CC0One of the cruelties of the Iliad is how alive each person is made to appear just before they are killed. That is the point of Homer’s long, detailed lists of Greeks and Trojans: names, deeds, parents, brothers, spouses, children, lovers, skills, bad hair, swift feet, words, and weapons. The poem about mass death insists on human particularity.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Lyndsey Stonebridge
In her exquisitely prickly novel, The Vulnerables, published last year, the American author Sigrid Nunez writes: “If it is true that an inability to deal with the future is a sign of mental disturbance, I don’t know anyone who is not now disturbed; who has not been disturbed for some time.” She was talking about how the past decade has swept away political and moral certainties, leaving many existentially high and dry, bewildered by events that seem to stack up before us, obscuring the view...
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May 10, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Lyndsey Stonebridge
The worst is that man has come to seem mindless. John Berger, “Francis Bacon and Walt Disney”The Zone of Interest is a film that has been shot at least twice: once through the lens of its director, Jonathan Glazer, and then again through the lens of the 7 October Hamas attack and the subsequent war on Gaza. Few Holocaust films have spoken to our times so directly.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Lyndsey Stonebridge
In the mid-1990s a university colleague would begin feminist theory classes by showing two recent TV adverts on VHS tape. The first was for Levi Jeans and featured a strikingly beautiful jeans-clad trans woman in the back seat of a yellow cab being subjected to the creepy teeth-licking gaze of her driver. In case the viewer did not get the “joke”, at the end of the ride she pulls out an electric shaver and trims her chin. “Levi’s – Made for Men” the final frame quipped.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Lyndsey Stonebridge
In the mid-1990s a university colleague would begin feminist theory classes by showing two recent TV adverts on VHS tape. The first was for Levi Jeans and featured a strikingly beautiful jeans-clad trans woman in the back seat of a yellow cab being subjected to the creepy teeth-licking gaze of her driver. In case the viewer did not get the “joke”, at the end of the ride she pulls out an electric shaver and trims her chin. “Levi’s – Made for Men” the final frame quipped.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Lyndsey Stonebridge
Lyndsey Stonebridge, a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham, is the author of “We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience.”For some it is an achingly timely masterpiece, for others it is “Holokitsch,” as shallow as the evil it denounces.
