Henry Siegman, former executive director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America, is an ordained Orthodox rabbi, and currently president of the US Middle East Project; he has authored numerous articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (see, for example, his noted 2007 critique of peace negotiations under President George W. Bush [...]
Archive for November, 2009
The Pathology of State Victimhood
Posted in Alt Jewish, Middle East on November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Digital Humanities: Second Life of the Archive
Posted in Scholarship, tagged Digital humanities, Edouard Glissant, Ray Siemens, Second Life, technology, virtual reality on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the heart of Manhattan this year, at the series of roundtables where creolizing knowledge is ironically at stake, even that most basic level of interactivity entailed in publishing a recording over the Internet is not guaranteed.
Seriously
Posted in Personal musings, tagged B.C., Coffee, Victoria on November 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just arrived at Serious Coffee, the oddly named chain of local British Columbia cafés, where I’m settling in to finish reading Edouard Glissant’s most recent novel, Ormerod. That novel, too, is oddly named, after the Caribbean literary critic Beverley Ormerod who now lives in Australia, although Glissant makes clear in his own inimitably recursive [...]
