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  Remembering Distinguished Professor Leith Mullings, Pioneering Anthropologist Committed to Social Justice The Graduate Center community is deeply saddened by the death of Distinguished Professor Emerita Leith Mullings (Anthropology), whose scholarship focused on inequality, its consequences, and resistance to it in the United States and other regions of the world and who was committed to addressing timely social issues and “empowering communities through knowledge.” Mullings died on December 13th from cancer that was recently diagnosed. Professor Jeff Maskovsky (GC/Queens, Anthrop...

Toward a Labor Theory of Generation X Samir: It would be nice to have that kind of job security. — Office Space IF MIKE JUDGE’S 1999 cubicle farm revenge fantasy Office Space has turned 21, the film’s principal characters would, in fact, be pushing 50 now — a milestone that protagonist Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston), who labors in the alienated vacuum of the Initech Corporation, deemed existentially impossible. Yet here we are: a middle-aged Generation X that has carried on through the irony, the apathy, and the TPS reports. In the exchange above, Peter and Samir (Ajay Naidu) capture...