Economy of Dissonance
The production of false fakes gets cast as a contradiction, but points back at an economic logic that refuses to differentiate between products and human beings.
Some Rules for Teachers
6. remember that students have bodies and that bodies require movement, sustenance, rest, and relief
The City that Care Remembered
A resource guide on Katrina and the ongoing efforts by residents to rebuild the city
No Money in Movies
In our flat content world, what becomes of classic filmmakers who haven't died yet? And will anyone replace them?
Fake Painting
If you’re a down-and-out artist and you’re of a certain socio-psychological bent, the idea of going to a minimum security prison for a year or two in exchange for being a world-famous artist might not sound like a bad tradeoff...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Zahira Kelly dissects the costs of online fame and upholds the dignity of speaking differently than the ruling class
Looking at The Flick
In Annie Baker's Pulitzer-winning play The Flick, tensions over race, sex, and labor automation appear in a mirror
The Ahmeds in America, Part I
The lawyer is also interested in finding an expert witness to testify about cultural and family practices in rural Pakistan, perhaps a sociologist, anthropologist or even a community leader familiar with the culture.
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Are men getting, somehow, even worse? Should being anti-capitalist mean women of color wearing sack cloth? Ask Marooned Alien Princess!
Art of the Rebuttal: Donald Rumsfeld
Looting is part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom -Donald Rumsfeld
This Week in Art Crime
No catcall zone signs put up across NYC and Philly, castle managers inexplicably burning contemporary art, shifty Italian framemakers with purloined Picassos, and more, This Week in Art Crime
Lies and Videotape
In the best documentary films, artifice isn't an obstacle to truth, it's a way in
Against the Normative World
A theorist who left behind a position as a preacher in the Blackpentecostal church returns to its practices for the potency of their critique
Un(der)known Writers: Flavia Dzodan
Flavia Dzodan on Dutch racism and Zwarte Piet
Birth of the Commune
The Paris Commune grew out of the radical debating clubs of the collapsing French Empire.
Powers of the Bottom
The masochist submits to violence to prepare acts of violent refusal. An interview with poet and filmmaker Cassandra Troyan