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Oil and Water

September 27, 2007 in Ferentz Lafargue, Shalini Kantayya, water by marisa | No comments

Bottled water companies have gotten us to believe, or rather, we have allowed ourselves to believe bottled water is “better” and “tastes different,” that we have completely overlooked the fact that once water becomes a full-fledged commodity, there’s no going back.

My pal Ferentz Lafargue (Songs in the Key of My Life) has written a post on water, which moves from naming the various reasons so many of us now reject tap water to asking us to think about the emerging global water crisis. And all with shoutouts to Mos Def, Fela Kuti, Jay-Z.

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slow going… CnS!

June 11, 2007 in Cypher&Syllable, Ferentz Lafargue, Suheir Hammad by marisa | No comments

Phew! Not much blogging lately. I’ve been working on building Cypher & Syllable (CnS). It still needs some polishing, but it’s finally up and running! Until we get more steam, we will be featuring occasional reprints of posts from this site and others, as well as original posts from us and other members of the CnS collective.

Last semester, when I had the students in one of my classes all making their own websites, it was interesting to watch each student work through the process of coming to an identity for his or her site. It’s hard! Read the rest of this entry »