The wall around life

The kinds of processes that I have been looking at are processes of impoverishment; processes in which the state is an active agent, and active actor, in letting people’s lives waste in certain places and at certain times. Anthropology has had a role in studying this displacement and this dispossession by showing how connections matter, how other lives here are entangled with those in remote processes, remote places, in the hope that we can at least broaden a moral compass. Thank you very much.

(Shalini Randeria)

J.Crew Hello World: Elisabetta Venturelli, Milan

Becomes a woman

One is not a woman but rather becomes one (Simone de Beauvoir)

Hello World!

Adichie on Lee

--sometimes novels are considered "important" in the way medicine is – they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you. The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre--

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Look Inward

....began to look inward, at themselves, and at the categories of gender, cultural, and political identity in which they were entangled, feeling that if Indonesians engaged in more introspection, really came to know themselves, much of the conflict in society could be avoided (Titarubi, 2004)

The Best Invention of Life

And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent

(Steve Jobs, 1955-2011)