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. “Radical universal decolonial anticapitalist diversality,” and other adventures in academic mumbo-jumbo . . Meaningless gibberish . Been reading various exponents of so-called “decolonial” theory of late — Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Anibal...

#1 Cinders by Jacques Derrida May 2014 “More than fifteen years ago,” Jacques Derrida writes in the prologue to this remarkable and uniquely revealing book, “a phrase came to me, as though in spite of me. . . . It imposed itself upon...

Wong You Kau and students in Hong Kong. Source: Reuters. Welcome to “Chinese Martial Arts in the News.”  This is a semi-regular feature here at Kung Fu Tea in which we review media stories that mention or affect the traditional fighting arts.  In addition...

Beatrice Marovich on Donovan Schaefer’s Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power, Duke University Press, 2015, 304 pp., $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper In the 1960s and 1970s, while observing chimpanzees...

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to read Looking for Palestine, Najla Said’s memoir, without remembering her father. While Said is an accomplished playwright, actress, and comedian, she is also the daughter of the celebrated Edward Said, whose 1978 text Orientalism...