Invented languages, cosmopolitan dreams
Arika Okrent has a thing for languages. Born in Chicago, she got good enough at Hungarian to teach in Hungary, and learned ASL while getting… Read More »Invented languages, cosmopolitan dreams
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
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Jonathan Torgovnik's photographs of children born of rape during the Rwandan genocide. – By Mia Fineman – Slate Magazine Powerful article about a photo series,… Read More »links for 2009-06-12
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Foreign Policy: Exclusive Interview with Morgan Tsvangirai Elizabeth Dickinson of Foreign Policy interviews Morgan Tsvangirai on the challenges of coalition government in Zimbabwe (tags: africa… Read More »links for 2009-06-11
Lewis Hyde and the enclosure of silence
Lewis Hyde, poet, critic and intellectual historian, has been hard at work on a book about “the commons”, and specifically the notion that ideas should… Read More »Lewis Hyde and the enclosure of silence
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mySociety Blog Archive What the government doesn%u2019t understand about the Internet, and what to do about it Provocative Tom Steinberg essay on what the (UK)… Read More »links for 2009-06-09
Goodbye to Bongo
Omar Bongo is dead. He died while undergoing cancer treatments in a Barcelona hospital. Can’t say I’ll be sorry to see him go. The late… Read More »Goodbye to Bongo