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…have you checked the MLA JIL list yet? 

As usual, jobs may be scarce for literary academics; however as Naomi Klein points out, the economy continues to offer some vibrantly growing sectors.

I just turned on the TV.  I heard the following exchange, beginning in the brief moment before the old tube-style screen was fully illuminated.

Audience member: Martha, I’d like to ask you, what is your favorite gardening hand-tool?

Martha:  Humm.  I think I’d have to say the Japanese hand-hoe.

I’m thinking it’s going to be a lovely day.

The attack conducted by units of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) on the city of Nablus in April 2002 was described by its commander, Brigadier-General Aviv Kokhavi, as ‘inverse geometry’, which he explained as ‘the reorganization of the urban syntax by means of a series of micro-tactical actions’.1 During the battle soldiers moved within the city across hundreds of metres of ‘overground tunnels’ carved out through a dense and contiguous urban structure. Although several thousand soldiers and Palestinian guerrillas were manoeuvring simultaneously in the city, they were so ‘saturated’ into the urban fabric that very few would have been visible from the air. Furthermore, they used none of the city’s streets, roads, alleys or courtyards, or any of the external doors, internal stairwells and windows, but moved horizontally through walls and vertically through holes blasted in ceilings and floors. This form of movement, described by the military as ‘infestation’, seeks to redefine inside as outside, and domestic interiors as thoroughfares. The IDF’s strategy of ‘walking through walls’ involves a conception of the city as not just the site but also the very medium of warfare – a flexible, almost liquid medium that is forever contingent and in flux…

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