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
Liberalism is Dead
Silicon Valley’s techtopian libertarianism points to a disruptive left fascism for the 21st century
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Green Nightmares
Fossil fuel resistance and repression are escalating
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
American Woman
Wonder Woman unsettles superheroes from within a national tradition that demands their existence
Capitalism with a Fluffy Face
The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs
Blood and Glory
After 9/11, the bodies at Ground Zero were made heroic; the immigrant bodies that cleaned them up, less so
Nuclear Renewal
Viewers can now browse footage of Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests on Youtube. What is the value of that access?
Party Like It’s 1992
Early colonization and current gentrification are linked by their use of cages to gain land and exert zero-sum autonomy over those with darker skin