Part Three of the audiobook for Maguire & Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern. This part discusses the political character of "security," and why "security" cannot be "solved."Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

Part Two of the audiobook for Maguire & Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

This is the first part of an audiobook, Maguire & Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern. The text has been published by Routledge, and is generally available.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

Part II of my book, Welcome to New Country: Music for Today's America, available in print on Amazon.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

Part II of my book Smith Lake.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

An introduction, and the beginning, of my book Welcome to New Country: Music for Today's America. Popular music as window into meanings, personal and even constitutional, for the way so many of us live.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

The limitations and excitement of the photo essay as a form, and my efforts to use it to articulate some subjectivities of the era just past, between the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid Pandemic.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

Our situation in time and space, festivals, and finding something special right here, right now, wherever and whenever that might be. Impressions. History, great local food and drink. Appreciation.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

Reflections on the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan, and why so little was learned from our war in Vietnam. Music by Vince Parlato; photo Vincent Littrell.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

A consideration of the killing of Soleimaini, in light of (renewed?) hopes for the liberal international order.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

The pandemic, both the physical disease and in the body politic, over the last years, as engaged by a writer marooned on a mountain. Cultural critique, existential struggle, and poetics -- with recipes.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

The pandemic, both the physical disease and in the body politic, over the last years, as engaged by a writer marooned on a mountain. Cultural critique, existential struggle, and poetics -- with recipes.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook

A reading from an unpublished book, on the (in)stability of memory, the self, family, art & so politics, and the need to carry on nonetheless. Enjoy.Autor: davidalbertwestbrook