Ultra Violence
The extreme nature of Ultra fandom often reflects an equally extreme political position
Chubz: the Demonization of my Working Arse
An excerpt from a book which takes the satirical power of erotic fan fiction seriously
Fifty Shades of Yellow
Tinhatters keep the early paranoid dreams of internet forum-based fandom alive
Healthy Boundaries
A community of people with a phobia of holes have made a name for themselves
The Soft Boys
Elizabeth Peyton’s painting uses the tropes of amateur fan art to tame the fluidity of queer desire
Paths to Gory
Human Centipede 3 is interpretive chum as catharsis
I'm Not Ready
The Hillary Clinton campaign casts voters as fans and reveals white feminism’s anti-black bias
The Crimson Ghost
What it means to be a fan of performers who hate their fans
Our Boys Gone Wild
The IDF's "selfie militarism" means smiling while playing the bad guy
Summer Heat
History shows police violence against Black people is intractable. What should we do? Quite simply, we must end the police.
Pushing Pixels
The scientific practices that provide us images of Martian landscapes also cast seeing itself in a new light
Myth of the Garbage Patch
The massive plastic trash gyre isn't an island, it's the disaster of capital circling the globe on ocean currents
That Transformative Dark Thing
The practice of Black feminist breathing evokes a lineage of Black revolutionaries whose faith in freedom continues to inspire individual and communal modes of survival, love and transformation
Demolition Party
China’s construction boom is driven by an equally booming wave of urban destruction.
MoW Memorandum
tA prospectus for a new Museum of Waste, which hopes to inform guests and visitors of trash's intersections with capital, ecology and sovereignty.
Bodies of Water
Disappearance is not just a euphemism for state murder; it’s intrinsic to capitalism’s need for disposable classes