Dr. TODD A. COMER

Professor & Scholar

Menu

Skip to content
  • About Prof. Todd
  • Syllabi
  • Books
  • English Dept.
  • Handouts
  • Links
  • Student Debt

Politics

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  [What follows is a guest column I wrote for The Crescent News (Defiance, OH). It was published on Jan. 18, 2016.] While many celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., his complexity has been largely erased from our memories. He has been sentimentalized to such an extent that the radical nature of his message has been lost. Even…

January 19, 2016 in personal writing, Politics, religion.

Eyal Weizman on understanding politics through architecture, settlements and refuseniks

Fascinating short article on how architecture, which we are to a large extent blind to due to it naturalization, is bound up in social control: “An architect that is running an office, who is in debt and pays salaries, has all the economic incentives to take it [a commission], but must resist it. The punishment…

December 1, 2014 in debt, Politics.

“We will need writers who can remember freedom”: Ursula K Le Guin at the National Book Awards | parker higgins dot net

Read this small statement from Le Guin (see link): “I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds…

November 20, 2014 in Politics.

Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself – Vox

Strange, disturbing reading material for the day: Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself – Vox.

November 13, 2014 in Politics, religion.
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • Dr. TODD A. COMER
    • Join 28 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Dr. TODD A. COMER
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar