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Michael J. Kramer

Modern US & Transnational History—Public & Digital History—Cultural & Social Criticism—Dramaturgy

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https://www.instagram.com/p/COLpCcYLSIr/ https://www.instagram.com/p/COLpBT0L9Dd/ https://www.instagram.com/p/COLpAY_Lhq1/ TAnia El Khoury AND Basel Zaraa’s As Far As Isolation Goes (Online) via the Bard Fisher Center explores issues of touch & marking, permanence & impermanence, in the trauma, travel, dislocation of a refugee life. The use of hip hop & spoken word sounds/lyrics made me think of that tradition's glyphs, cyphers, voices. They allow for speaking permanently from the temporary zones of the global modern world, at once leaving a mark & reaching for something more. My own arm after the performance. Permanent marker of myself and travelers, washed with water. #AFAIG21 History Professor, Izucar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico, c. 1960. New #culturerover: Temporary Seating—beyond mittenology: sitting with the bernie sanders meme. michaeljkramer.net/temporary-seating "Oh my aching head." At Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY. If thinking about the present US is exhausting you, come think about the "Long 1950s" w/ Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus & Howard Brick in their book At the Center: American Thought & Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century, over at the USIH Book Review. https://s-usih.org/2021/01/bullseye/ Always worth revisiting Woody Guthrie’s New Years Rulin’s. But what happened to #15? May 2021 bring you all good (or at least some better) things.