Fan Nonfiction
Heroic tales about video-game production mask how the hobby holds both its audience and performers captive
Born Under the Tobacco Flower, and Raised Under the Lis
Dreams of a separatist Quebec nation are founded on conservative, racist attachments to bloodline that leftist adherents cannot so quickly disavow
The Participation Problem
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.
The Predator and the Jokester
Power shows its ugliest tentacles most clearly in the figures of the predator and the jokester
Dream Workers
A review of Nabokov’s Dreams
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
A Pain in the Back
Capitalism breaks the body of the worker to the benefit of the state and factory owner that might intervene and facilitate its repair
The Management Estate
Objectivity in American newsrooms is a pastiche of colonial subjectivities
Whose Time Is It, Anyway?
The uneven temporalities that structure global capitalism require martyrdom from its least valued commuters
Universal Basic Bullshit
By providing the working class with the absolute bare minimum, universal basic income becomes doomsday prep for the tech billionaire
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Make Kin, Not Borders
Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?
Must Fall
Reflections on Must Fall’s paradoxical call, student politics in South Africa, and the role of the university
The Havoc of Less
Huey Newton’s theory of intercommunalism reminds us not to lose sight of the everyday over the spectacular in contemporary discourses of crisis
Language Under House Arrest
Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity
Symbolic Threats
Flag worship hides the violence and division that truly shape a nation