Ellen McCracken

Currently writing a book about the altered textuality of literature read on small portable electronic devices–iPads, Kindles, smart phones, etc .

[Col. Gustavo Arellano @GustavoArellano]

MY LATEST ⁦@latimes⁩ COLUMNA: Thomas Mann House survived Palisades fire. We should heed Mann's words. RT, porfas! https://t.co/xwyjoLWGro

[Elena Poniatowska @Eponiatowska]

"A lo largo de los años, José Agustín aparecía en los periódicos un día sí y otro también con la llamada literatura de la Onda y el desafío a Fuentes y a Octavio Paz."
https://t.co/X0miseOOdG

[CCU Tlatelolco @ccutlatelolco]

🔥 2 de Octubre No Se Olvida🔥 
A más de cinco décadas, la justicia sigue ausente, hoy recordamos la lucha y la valentía de los estudiantes que alzaron la voz por un México 🇲🇽 más justo. 

Las voces silenciadas por la represión claman justicia, y nuestra lucha continúa hasta que se rompa el pacto de silencio. La memoria es resistencia y la impunidad también es violencia.

 #ciudaduniversitaria # ejercito #lasislas #unam #1968 #testimonios #memoria #estudiantes #movimientoestudiantil #JusticiaParaEl68 #2DeOctubreNoSeOlvida #ContraLaImpunidad #MemoriaYJusticia #EstudiantesEnResistencia

[Elena Poniatowska @Eponiatowska]

"Son muchos. Vienen a pie, vienen riendo. Bajaron por Melchor Ocampo, la Reforma, Juárez, Cinco de Mayo, muchachos y muchachas estudiantes que van del brazo en la manifestación con la misma alegría con que hace apenas unos días iban a la feria; jóvenes despreocupados que no saben que mañana, dentro de dos días, dentro de cuatro estarán allí hinchándose bajo la lluvia, depués de una feria en donde el centro del tiro al blanco lo serán ellos..." #2DeOctubreNoSeOlvida

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Nothing to see here -- just an internal report by Shell from 1989 precisely predicting the "violent weather" and "deluges" that just destroyed half of Appalachia, and summing up expected climate chaos with the comment, "Civilisation could prove a fragile thing."

[spooky nicølina 🎃🪿🚩 @ellonico]

DO NOT LET THE SCHOOL FORGET THIS.

WHEN UCSD PRAISES ITS HISTORY OF STUDENT ACTIVISM, REMEMBER — THIS IS HOW THEY RESPONDED.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

While you’re enjoying strawberries this summer, please remember the folks who work so hard to help bring them to your home.

Thank you to the workers of the Reagan family farm in Arkansas and all the farm workers who work under difficult conditions to bring produce to our tables.

[Astra Taylor @astradisastra]

A preview of my new book "The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart."

I look at how capitalism depends on manufactured insecurity to function and how indignation at this fact can help coalesce the movements we need change things.

https://t.co/QgaAIHZAbo

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Elsevier is losing editors

[Greg @GregGrandin]

Great essay by Joel Whitney on new edition of Miguel Angel Asturias. Had no idea of extent to which the CIA shadow banned him, via its cultural Cold War programs. https://t.co/fIkgPkUhq8

[Lessig 🇺🇦 @lessig]

One striking issue raised in Judge Koeltl's careful opinion in the Hachette v. Internet Archive case is the distinction between "commercial-noncommercial" use for purposes of fair use.

https://t.co/58qT05QFrH

[Michel Mompontet @mompontet]

C'est absolument dingue !
En 1947, la télévision française avait demandé à René Barjavel d'imaginer le futur. Exercice oh combien casse gueule.
Et bien ses prédictions sont stupéfiantes !!!! Internet Iphone tout y est !!! Un visionnaire.

[Major General (ret) Paul Eaton @PaulDEaton52]

As the former Commanding General of the Infantry Center at Fort Benning and Chief of Infantry, I know a bit about weapons. Let me state unequivocally — For all intents and purposes, the AR-15 and rifles like it are weapons of war. A thread:

[Ellen McCracken @ProfeMcCracken]

@mervatim @NewYorker Superb! Thanks for this wonderful piece!

[Cindy and Luis Urrea @Urrealism]

I was so honored to represent Rudy in this historic volume. I wrote with all I had about all he gave us.

[Dove Darling 🕊 (is on IG!) @awritingswan]

Not all books from diverse authors need to be inspired by their own cultures. Seeking diverse voices only for the books with “traditional aesthetics” is unfair. Sometimes we want to create original worlds too. But that doesn’t change the fact that we are still v much marginalized

[Left in the Bay @leftinthebay]

53 years ago, Jan 22 1969, students at UC Berkeley began a three-month strike. Led by the Third World Liberation Front, a coalition of Black, Mexican-American, Asian-American, and Native American student groups, the strike led to the creation of the Ethnic Studies Department