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The Gloom of the System

By David NoriegaMarch 26, 2012
The participants in Colombia's student protests came to discover the flawed reality of reality itself.
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Middle-Class Occupations

By Callie MaidhofMarch 22, 2012
The politics of middle class populism produce the peculiar social focus of both Occupy Wall Street and the #J14 housing protests in Israel.
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Revenge of the Thanatoids

By Brian CollinsMarch 20, 2012
The collection Work may be a great wonder of a thing, but one’s wondering begins with the odd sense of having been served a dish of leftovers.
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Stalker/Zona

By Kevin BreathnachMarch 19, 2012
Geoff Dyer's book about a movie about a journey to a room. But if Dyer is Stalker, then the reader becomes Writer, who can do whatever he wants with the text.
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Curb Your Moralia

By Madeline Lane-McKinleyMarch 16, 2012
He critiqued the television medium, but could Adorno have seen Larry David coming?
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Beyond the Valley of 1984

By Vicky OsterweilMarch 15, 2012
Miles Klee’s inventive, chaotic debut novel Ivyland gets stranded between dystopia and the apocalypse
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No Kony Is an Island: Death and Profit in Central Africa

By Elliott Prasse-FreemanMarch 14, 2012
Kony has been the way in for millions, let him be the way out.
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First-Person Corporate

By Erwin MontgomeryMarch 12, 2012
Neoliberal themes in contemporary novels do more than enforce political correctness and mitigate class conflict; they dupe you into writing yourself out of your own life story.
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Great Dads

By Giovanni TisoMarch 9, 2012
Meet the Great Dad. He's come to make you forget feminism ever existed.
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Trouble at the Language Lab

By Zack FriedmanMarch 8, 2012
Ben Marcus’s novel The Flame Alphabet is a disaster novel about what happens to the avant-garde in the age of the MFA.
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The Fight and the Whale

By Andrew LimbongMarch 7, 2012
In an oddly therapeutic podcast, comedians Tom Scharpling and Marc Maron confront their fears of aging disgracefully, losing their boundaries, and becoming irrelevant
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Get Thee to a University

By Christine BaumgarthuberMarch 6, 2012
As the value of higher education starts breaking bad, the unprecedented number of degree-holding women reach a milestone and assume a millstone.
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Arms and Legs

By Malcolm HarrisMarch 5, 2012
Shots fired across the generation gap in an era of indenture.
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Peace And/Or Quiet

By A.M. GittlitzMarch 1, 2012
Is John Horgan anti-war or anti-noise?
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Lumps of Labor

By Ned ResnikoffFebruary 29, 2012
How economic-policy discussion hides the agency of workers, rendering them so much raw fuel for capital
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The Slow Politics of Occupied Filmmaking

By Adam RothsteinFebruary 27, 2012
The Liveswarm has made for some of the most effective movement propaganda in decades, but what are its aesthetics?

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