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Representing Crisis

By Elizabeth NewtonSeptember 22, 2016
When focusing on symptoms of austerity, media transfers blame to CUNY student body
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Bug Out

By Alicia ElerAugust 30, 2016
What’s crawling underneath the fantasy of an insect-free home?
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Colony Control

By Khairani BarokkaAugust 25, 2016
Metaphors of happy ant laborers work to make the same of human bodies
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Hospitality and The Hairworm

By Kathryn HamiltonAugust 23, 2016
When most people think about bugs, it’s usually about how to get rid of them.
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Bees Are Dying

By Lauren DucaAugust 18, 2016
In response to bees dying globally at an alarming rate, “humans would probably not go extinct” is the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ of apocalyptic diagnoses, the kind of science for which only memes can provide a rational response
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Virulence in the Virtual

By Remina GreenfieldAugust 16, 2016
Virulent power dynamics manifest in games specifically designed to simulate rape, as well as games that have been modified to include it 
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Do No Harm

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioAugust 10, 2016
When mental health professionals systemically misdiagnose patients of color, treatment looks more like punishment
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The Irrelevant and the Contemporary

By DannyPennyAugust 2, 2016
Why is poetry #trending in contemporary art?
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Hanford Idyll

By Emma Claire FoleyJuly 29, 2016
At Hanford Nuclear Reservation, wildlife is imagined as thriving, and violent state policy is extended into an indefinitely long future
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Addicted to Failure

By Caroline DurlacherJuly 27, 2016
Neoliberalism foists on career-minded millennials a self-relation which resembles that of alcoholics in the throes of addiction.
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Anger Management

By Ratik AsokanJuly 25, 2016
In the novels of Horacio Castellanos Moya, the political is personal
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Not for You

By Vicky OsterweilJuly 22, 2016
The growth in consumption inequality means more movies are made for the dwindling numbers of top earners
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Time Is a Killer

By Tiana ReidJuly 15, 2016
Aging, as a staged theme, provokes other forms of performance to become strained and uncertain
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Death by Immortality

By Keguro MachariaJuly 14, 2016
Cancer is a tainted bonus
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Recoil Operation

By Patrick BlanchfieldJuly 11, 2016
America’s rifle is thus an overdetermined object: the symbol of the violence we visit on others, and which we thrive on exporting.
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Don DeLillo Did 9/11

By Malcolm HarrisJuly 6, 2016
Surpassed by history, will the novelist put down his pen?

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