Berfrois

Identity

‘Unlike a Facebook profile or a blog entry, you cannot craft your gaming self at leisure.’

‘The notion that M.I.A. isn’t politically meaningful because her motives are mixed and her ideas are screwed up is clueless about how pop music works – namely, all kinds of screwy ways.’

Health Warning: Philosophy Kills

Catherine Douillet on Postcolonial Conflicts and Cross-Cultural Fertilization in Derek Walcott’s Poetry

Book excerpt: ‘Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership’ by Lewis Hyde
Poem: The Labyrinth by Robert P. Baird
Video: Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?
Image gallery: China Bikes
Book excerpt: ‘Out of Steppe’ by Daniel Metcalfe
Podcast: The Early Universe, as Seen From the South Pole