I’ll be speaking in Portland this Monday about my new collection, Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy:
Monday, August 27 — 7pm
Reading Frenzy — 921 SW Oak Street, Portland
I plan to say a bit about what torture tells us about our society, and to discuss the competing meanings of democracy. Q+A to follow.
Talks
I’m giving three talks in the Northwest over the next few days.
Thursday, August 2, 7:30pm — Left Bank Books, Seattle: I’ll be discussing my latest, Hurt: Torture and the Logic of Domination.
Saturday, August 4, 11:30am — New Directions Fest, Olympia: I’ll be discussing police accountability, police abolition, and questions of movement strategy.
Sunday, August 5, 5pm — Last Word Books, Olympia: Again, I’ll be talking about Hurt.
Interviews
“Police and the Occupy Movement,” Counterpunch, July 6-8, 2012.
“FBI Targeting People for their Political Views.” PressTV. July 29, 2012.
On Rose City Copwatch: PressTV, July 12, 2012.
Articles
My essay “Profiles of Provocateurs” has been reprinted in the book Government Repression, Prisoner Support, edited by Sacramento Prisoner Defense and published by P&L Press.
Aside from that, I’ve written several reviews about state repression over the past few months:
“The Black Panthers in Portland.” Against the Current. July/August 2012.
“The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti.” Toward Freedom. June 12, 2012.
“The Politics of Security: Policing, Dictatorships, and Resistance.” Toward Freedom. March 9, 2012.
“Prison Blossoms: Anarchist Voices from the American Pastem>.” Toward Freedom. February 1, 2012.
“Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism.” Race and Class. October-December 2011.
It’s been a while since I’ve linked to my comics criticism.
Here’s what I’ve been doing:
“Too Much Coffee Man #1 (facsimile edition).” The Comics Journal. June 22, 2012.
“The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Book Review.” Toward Freedom. June 7, 2012.
“Holy Terror.” Geez. Summer 2012. (Not online.)
“Black Classics Reborn.” In These Times. April 2012.
“The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media.” The World and I. March 2012.
“The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks.” The Comics Journal. February 24, 2012.
“Batman vs. Robin.” The Comics Journal. February 13, 2012.
“Alan Moore: Conversations.” The Comics Journal. January 19, 2012.
“Liar’s Kiss.” The Comics Journal. September 7, 2011.
The talk I gave in Portland about the cops and the Occupy movement was videotaped and is online in a couple different versions. Here’s one.
Police and the 99% – Kristian Williams from Burning Hearts Media on Vimeo.
I’ve been on KBOO radio twice in two months. First, Bill Resnick interviewed me about the Treyvon Martin case, among other things. Then, Jay Thiemeyer interviewed me about my new pamphlet, Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy.
And I’ve recently written reviews of two books examining developments in counterinsurgency and security theory. One looks at David Price’s Weaponizing Anthropology. The other assesses the collection Anti-Security.