A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls

In response to vengeful threats from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, a coalition of public officials, artists, activists, formerly incarcerated people, and crime survivors calls to maintain the planned release of former Black Panther Herman Bell.

Desire is something that’s irrational, and often delusional.

An interview with David Scott about his book Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity

We must name the monsters within, and claim the monstrosities we have had a hand in creating.

When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.

There is always going to be something outside, waiting to kill us all

A review of Divining Desire (OR Books) by Liza Featherstone

Bad faith: a magnanimous euphemism. To accuse someone of acting in bad faith is to assume that their motives are duplicitous. It avoids calling them…

The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power

Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.