McLuhan: Global Warning

I have long appreciated – the often misunderstood – work of Marshall McLuhan and I am pleased to have an essay in this FREE (for digital copy) collection! “The Maelstrom of Our Own Creation,” in McLuhan: Global Warning, West Den Haag, 2020 (On the occasion of the project Feedback #5: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts presented…

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New Netflix Documentary Avoids the Why in Favor of the “Who Killed Malcolm X?”

By largely ignoring questions of “why” he was killed the new Netflix documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X?” largely ignores the important politics and ideas that made Malcolm X a symbol to this day of international revolutionary struggle. REFERENCED ITEMS: A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the Extreme Defining…

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A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X

“This collection of essays by Black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, is a critical response to Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Though lauded by many, Marable’s book was debated and denounced by others as a flawed biography, full of conjecture and errors and…

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