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Essays & Reviews

Privacy for Whom?

By Sam Adler-BellFebruary 21, 2018
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
Essays & Reviews

Artificial Advancements

By Taeyoon ChoiFebruary 9, 2018
Technological innovation is not an inherent good for disabled people, especially when the focus is on cure over care
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Up for debate

By Kylie Benton-ConnellFebruary 7, 2018
Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left
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White Magic

By Lou CornumFebruary 5, 2018
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
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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
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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.
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One or Many Directions

By JB BragerJanuary 26, 2018
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?
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Immortal Techniques

By Emma StammJanuary 24, 2018
23andMe makes the human body immortal at last
Essays & Reviews

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
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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
Essays & Reviews

Fan Nonfiction

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

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

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