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Baby Heists

By Andrew LeeAugust 23, 2022
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism
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Mall Gothic

By Anna Aguiar KosickiAugust 18, 2022
White American nostalgia is neurotically fixated on social constructions that are imagined dead even as they become stronger, as evidenced by the twin histories of the mall and the Midwest
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In the Mood for Loss

By Mason L. WongAugust 11, 2022
How finance facilitated China's authoritarian takeover of Hong Kong
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Can’t See the Wood for the Trees

By Malcolm SangerAugust 9, 2022
Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.
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Laundering Bodies

By Mike GallagherJuly 25, 2022
Triage and the consultant-ethicist in for-profit healthcare
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Champagne Wishes and Crypto Dreams

By Patrick McGintyJuly 21, 2022
Of course there are crypto memoirs. But how do they theorize history?
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“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe

By Charlie MarkbreiterMarch 1, 2022
When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.
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21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes

By ML KejeraFebruary 10, 2022
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
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Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State

By c. e.September 13, 2021
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital
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Pfizer Walk With Me

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie VierkantSeptember 13, 2021
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
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Eine kleine Paranoia

By Mary Elizabeth BorkowskiSeptember 13, 2021
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
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The Year of Magical Thinking

By Gasira TimirSeptember 13, 2021
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC
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The Contagious Assembly

By Alex BenhamAugust 24, 2020
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
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Life During Wartime

By Ju-Hyun ParkJuly 27, 2020
Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War
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Abolition is Not a Suburb

By Tamara K. NopperJuly 16, 2020
Affluent white havens are not models of accountability
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Fame Shame

By Sophia GiovannittiJuly 9, 2020
Cyrus Dunham’s debut memoir, A Year Without A Name, tells the story of his gender transition. He slowly allows himself to embody a gender other…

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