Everything Is a Target
...they had plutonium plants. We had naval yards, they had naval yards. They didn’t want to die, we didn’t want to die. What happens at the end of the Cold...
Buffalo Skulls
...university public relations is where thought goes to die, white nationalists like Richard Spencer see it as a major victory. Words are powerful. Lemkin’s word, genocide, made it possible to...
Thesis 2: Capitalism, No More
...image via For Indigenous nations to live, capitalism must die. What the recent direct actions of First Nations communities like Elsipogtog in New Brunswick demonstrate is that Indigenous...
Room to Despair
...months or years, or however long it takes for the angry, terrified parts of him to shudder and die. What do you do? You do the only thing you can...
Solitary Confinement
...yet completely undefined in terms of how the player experiences it. Even though you are rolling a die and consulting a results table, you see the battle in terms beyond...
An Infantile Disorder
...of receiving a wage. Dead, they are demand without demands. But some teenagers don’t die. In Japan in the early 1990s, a young psychiatrist named Saitō Tamaki began seeing patients...
Pose: Death & Home
...die after having watched your lover die, returning home to die surrounded by homo-hating relatives. Darius Bost has written about how writer and editor Joseph Beam died: In a published...
Living is Easy
...your ‘80s sitcom rebooted here, your ‘60s sci-fi dressed in newfangled CGI there. Thrilling action, spine-tingling adventure, and genuine spectacle come with, but only if they’re attached to a known...
The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis
Editors' Note, Vol. 35: Sick
...put to rest. Trying to die, but in a state that means you can’t really mean it, means you’ll struggle with coming to terms even with your failure—as if there...
Sick
...split so beloved of philosophy, but that doesn’t make any easier to put to rest. Trying to die, but in a state that means you can’t really mean it, means...
more tired, more frustrated, more rotten
...die, she observed, it is seen--as it should be--as a loss of life that can be grieved. But when Palestinian children die, their very lives can seem like the provocation...
A film in the catacinema
...derivation of a Baba Yaga tale for the modern age. Others claimed it bore strong resemblances to Die Hard 14: A Throw of the Die Never Abolishes the Hard, and...
The Fake as More
...than in bed. Accordingly, Born to Die (2012) took a Blue Velvet-ier direction. But for the album’s Pepsi-colored cover shoot, and for most of that year’s concerts, acceptances, and appearances,...
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two
...Untermenschen about to die who keep within their hearts, as consolation before the void, the delight of this or that happy memory, dazzling love, faithfulness to their comrades in battle,...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...you they’d like to preserve what little they have left, because you have to have whatever you want, at whatever cost? You won’t die because you weren’t allowed to touch...