July 2012
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Watch“Put another way, tradition and community are not mere inheritances passively received form the past and certainly not merely fetters on human freedom. Tradition, to early nineteenth-century workers, included both their craft skills and the rights they claimed for this “human capital” against the incursions of inhuman capital. Tradition is in part the process by which successful claims to rights...
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Madame Defarge’s belated Bastille Day Quiz
Traditionally, Bastille Day celebrates in perpetua an inaugural anniversary (1790′s Fête de la Fédération), itself commemorating an infamous fortress-prison’s storming (July 14, 1789) that tipped-off the eighteenth century’s uprising among uprisings. Vive la démocratie!
How does one celebrate Bastille Day? Once, when very young and in Battery Park, by listening to Stereolab play a set after...
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