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No Place Like Home

By Sam HuberFebruary 2, 2018
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
Essays & Reviews

Laughing at America

By Esme DouglasJanuary 31, 2018
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
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The Malignant Melancholy

By Amba AzaadJanuary 29, 2018
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.
Essays & Reviews

One or Many Directions

By JB BragerJanuary 26, 2018
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?
Essays & Reviews

Immortal Techniques

By Emma StammJanuary 24, 2018
23andMe makes the human body immortal at last
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Carceral Capitalism

By Jackie WangJanuary 22, 2018
Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.
Essays & Reviews, Features

What Was the Child?

By Vincent BevinsJanuary 17, 2018
Childhood as we currently understand it emerged with 20th century capitalism, but as the distinction between labor and leisure is breaking down, so too is the concept of childhood
Essays & Reviews

Paradise Lost

By Kaila PhiloJanuary 16, 2018
The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams
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Fan Nonfiction

By Michael ThomsenJanuary 15, 2018
Heroic tales about video-game production mask how the hobby holds both its audience and performers captive
Essays & Reviews

Born Under the Tobacco Flower, and Raised Under the Lis

By Lindsay NixonJanuary 12, 2018
Dreams of a separatist Quebec nation are founded on conservative, racist attachments to bloodline that leftist adherents cannot so quickly disavow
Essays & Reviews

The Participation Problem

By Anne SpiceDecember 19, 2017
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.
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The Predator and the Jokester

By Lauren BerlantDecember 13, 2017
Power shows its ugliest tentacles most clearly in the figures of the predator and the jokester
Essays & Reviews

Dream Workers

By Eli MandelNovember 14, 2017
A review of Nabokov’s Dreams
Essays & Reviews

Animal Citizens, Animal Workers

By Rachel Elizabeth FraserNovember 14, 2017
Animals require a politics of labor
Essays & Reviews

A Pain in the Back

By Aaron NeimanNovember 14, 2017
Capitalism breaks the body of the worker to the benefit of the state and factory owner that might intervene and facilitate its repair
Essays & Reviews

The Management Estate

By Alfredo F. RileyNovember 14, 2017
Objectivity in American newsrooms is a pastiche of colonial subjectivities

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