The Grouch
Sesame Street’s Oscar is all thinkable archetypes of the outsider, scrunched into the shape of a safe cartoon.
Percival Everett by Percival Everett
A story about a very good writer
Character Assassination
Though they foreground models over characters, systems-oriented video games can't evade the issues of identity politics
Spy vs. History
In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer, the war over the Vietnam War rages on
Towards a Black Muslim Ontology of Resistance
Anti-blackness and Islamophobia structure American Black Muslim subjects through opposing regimes of identity and visibility
From Mega-Machines to Mega-Algorithms
How do we build resistance to algorithmic systems of domination when their rewards and punishments are both hidden and immaterial?
A Form of Faith
Memorial altars in Los Angeles offer resistance to the digital
Praying in The Closet
In gay priest Malcolm Boyd's popular prayerbook Are You Running With Me, Jesus?, queer insight elevated Christian practice
Smash Images from Antiquity
Idolaters and iconoclasts share an unshatterable faith in the value of the image
Holy Land
Zionism excavates its secular justification from the Jerusalem dirt
Miracle on 214th Street
The instantaneous apparition of Polaroid images creates miraculous and apocalyptic visions
Justice in One Country
So-called left-wing Zionism is white nationalism by another name
The New Somali Studies
What would a decolonized Somali Studies look like?
St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene
No matter how far they run, contemporary horror writers can’t escape their genre’s racist forbearers
Community Slander
Anonymity online may engender individual harassment, but voting and ranking in apps allows groups to harass groups
Defending Rojava
A new book points to the ways Rojava can be defended from ISIS, Turkey and the Western left.