Coming of Age in Modern Dystopia
The bildungsroman as living historical document.
The Enemy of All Mankind
If Global Fishing Watch is unlikely to be used by ordinary citizens of the countries most affected by illegal fishing, why is it marketed like a neighborhood watch tool?
Environmental Racism in St. Louis
A brief history of the lead poisoning epidemic in St. Louis and a question about its future.
Info Wars
A new book plumbs the history and ideology behind the State Department's propaganda efforts in Middle Eastern media, and the resistance it provokes.
Amniotechnics
A politics of holding water is central to struggles around kinmaking, including reproductive justice, migrant solidarity, and indigenous sovereignty
Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams
In an exclusive conversation, surveillance scholar Simone Browne and artist Zach Blas critique various forms of “control diagrams” and imagine a new commons in the space between the Internet’s network nodes.<
The Weather
Slavery suffuses our present-day environment in an afterlife called the weather. An excerpt from In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Duke University Press, November 2016.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Light a Fire Under the DNC
If it doesn't catch, then let it burn.
Syria and the Left: A Call to Arms
As the world's imperial powers unify against Syrians, we offer suggestions for how those in the West can demonstrate solidarity with the besieged.
Let Them Drink Blood
Silicon Valley futurists plan to live forever by harvesting both the labor and the body parts of the working class.
The Networked Assembly Line
The algorithm is your new boss and the factory is everywhere.
The Eaten World
Measuring our bodies against the reluctant microbiome metaphor.
The End Is Always Near
The flourishing of fascism depends upon a sense of inevitability; Peter Frase’s Four Futures: Life After Capitalism summons the will and concentration to imagine differently.
Podcast Out
A sense of ennui and overdetermination binds the audience of NPR podcasts together in a bloc of obnoxious explainerism.
Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng”
The glitches in HBO’s Westworld might tell us something about those in our own.