Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...The journalist’s use of the term reflects only the latest and most politicized understanding, popularized by a tiny but vocal number of violent extremists, and adopted wholesale by a well-funded...
Zombie Novel
...artfully implied, forcing us to go back and reread for errant pieces of the puzzle. Professional narratologists have yet to develop the terms necessary to describe the structure of John...
The Accidental Audience
...distant from the things it appropriates than artists tend to think. Compared with the “real” products of the world — mass-produced goods with professional sheen, ubiquitous commercial presence, and celebrity...
A Very Long Winter
...involved. From field kitchens to underground hospitals, fight trainings to lectures and film screenings, and transportation to distribution and supplies, a huge infrastructure was growing up around the protests. There...
Joe Cool
...to more easily adapt to where we’re at and who we’re with rather than forever searching for short-lived ways to be “unique,” may we actually experience something closer to a...
The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice
A conversation with the authors of Octavia's Brood.
Scoreboard Jesus
...notes, “If lucrative television contracts were making club owners and athletes into fiscal wizards, while providing ample exposure to an adoring public, then perhaps it was time for professional religion...
Abolition is Not a Suburb
Affluent white havens are not models of accountability
Facebook in the Age of Facebook
...can line up. Since literally anything one does can become “activity,” self-fashioning becomes inseparable from professional development. Employers must evaluate people not in terms of specific skills but their total...
Coal Comfort
...workforces and reliable access to fossil fuels plus the infrastructure to find, transport, and process them. China joined the WTO and removed most of its remaining barriers to foreign investment...
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
Future Islands
...latest novel this refusal of commitment feels like a flaw. When, at the novel’s end, we find ourselves in the province of the suburban novel—territory Lee previously visited in Aloft...
Women Radiobiologists and 'Standard Man'
...these materials spectrographically to determine their elemental compositions. Her 1948 results, “A Survey Report of the Characteristics of the Standard Man,” went unpublished but circulated widely among radiobiologists beyond Oak...
1983 - 1962
...policy of low cost (except for the pay of the protagonist, there was a zeroing out of the all the other professional contributions which contribute to the quality of the...
Real Inauthentic Like
...she ascends to the professional class (“Though incredibly fast, her phone was still too slow”), the pace of strident success, her lifelong social climbing, and her biological clock all conspire...
Testing Beyond Control
...Live on Facebook — and He’s Negative.” NBCNews.com. July 14, 2016. The Royal test is the latest instance of a long -- and successful -- line of publicity efforts to...