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.
The Road to Garissa
But Kenya refused to accept the results
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two
The Post-Exotic novel wants to destroy reality. The second half of Antoine Volodine's essay on the form of the novel, its destruction and its reconstruction
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part One
The post-exotic novel offers lessons in attacking the strictures of official literature
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
The Union Jack and the Southern Cross
Symbolic erasure of the indegene on New Zealand's campaign trail
Nostalgia for the Future
Images of Palestine circulate globally as long as they don’t picture return
Mapping the Sneakernet
Digital media travels hand to hand, phone to phone across vast cartographies invisible to Big Data
Memory and Preservation
The monuments in Jalada’s Afrofuture(s) Anthology
On Neuronationalism: Autism, Immunity, Security
The purview of national security extends to the surface of the brain to secure hierarchies already structured by state violence
The Future Bubble
Capitalism posits a future of endless innovation in products and production processes, but no possible change in the social relations that move them
Real Human Being
A collection of essays on the work of Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter attempts to move toward a future beyond white supremacist narratives of human universality.
Fear of a Muslim Planet
The micro-genre of “Islamophobic futurism” in fiction unites Western liberals and conservatives
The Collection and the Cloud
In the future, will platforms own our pasts?
Seeing it Hole
A new book tracks art's attempts to map capitalism