Queer, Interrupted
Cops have no business telling queer youth “it gets better” while they protect the regime that makes it worse. Better to bash back than to wait.
No Accidents, Comrade
Twilight Struggle and the subversion of ludic truth
System Failures
Screenshot from Ghost Recon: Future Soldier On April 9, 2009, fourteen peace activists were arrested for trespassing onto Creech Air Force Base (AFB) in Indian…
The Prison-Educational Complex
When police are deployed in high schools, typical behavioral issues are reframed as criminal ones.
Objects of Derision
Cop comedies invite us to laugh at the terror police induce by being both less and more than human
The Esoteric Whodunit
What is the point of watching mysteries get solved when the motives and reasoning are beyond any ordinary person’s comprehension?
Tweeting the Beat
How an out-of-work Wisconsinite achieved Internet celebrity by tweeting police dispatches from his hometown of Sheboygan
By Any Other Name
A public-relations makeover for Predator drones? It's all in the lingo.
Dumb Computers, Smart Cops
If cops are supposed to be programmed by the law and constitutional restrictions on their power, we should fear the budding signs of their artificial intelligence.
Paranoid Androids
Political theater is not without its tragic and comic masks
Escape From Minus World
The freedom to spend is a freedom based on risk. It doesn't allow for a freedom from risk
Flight for Your Rights
Privacy rights will receive the same treatment given wedding parties when drones see domestic deployment.
Under Our Skins
Smartphones bring just-in-time efficiency and corporate discipline to everything from shopping to sex slavery
London, Underground
Laurie Penny on London under Olympic occupation
Live Through This
Rape is often regarded as the worst thing that can happen to a woman, a sort of spiritual murder
Loving Franko B
The artist Franko B is something of an ambassador for love — or rather, its aftermath. When love gathers its things and goes, what does it leave behind?