More Could Have Happened With That Subplot
Wynne Greenwood, the performance artist behind Tracy + the Plastics, wants to chat on Hangouts
Draw the Line
Displacement won’t be stopped unless new residents of gentrifying neighborhoods join the organizing efforts that already exist
Opening the Gate
The Ivorian novelist Edwige Renée-DRO talks about the wealth of writing talent and the weakness of Africa’s publishing infrastructure
Called to Account
The author of Debt to Society discusses how subjectivity is constituted by financial relations
Taming the Inexplicable
The Witness’s potentially subversive message is lost inside a culture of relentless techno-utopianism and its creator’s own hubris
White Bodies, Black Faces
Why do so many white people want the power to surrender their whiteness?
This Sex Which Is Not Two
Challenging the biological basis of sex and dispensing with the nature vs. nurture opposition
No Mushroom Cloud
A fungus offers a complicated lesson in late-capitalist logistics and survival. A review of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World
Cap and Trade
An anthropologist explores the world of matsutake mushroom picking and what it reveals about neoliberal capitalism
Seconds of Pleasure
Phone games, listicles, masturbation booths, and the return of rational recreation
City Hunger
A 15th century book shows the entanglement of architecture and appetite
Bitter Medicine
Using mercury poisoning treatments to 'fix' autism punishes children for bearing the mark of an unhealthy society
Human Nature
A new book describing capitalism as an ecological system clarifies the stakes for ending it
Fear of Screens
Why would anyone want to believe that people who are communicating with phones have forgotten what friendship is?
Tender Potatoes
Chantal Akerman’s films show how murderous violence always lurks in the mundanity of the domestic
War Comes Home for Dinner
Since World War II, the aims of grocery shoppers, parents and the U.S. military’s Quartermaster Corps have merged