In the Mood for Loss
How finance facilitated China's authoritarian takeover of Hong Kong
Assets
The breakdown of the political economy and the means of value production have led to cultural and ideological confusion about what is valuable—and the resulting vacuum in...
Organized Plunder
In the absence of the tax dollars city governments rely on, American are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.
Vol. 76 Editors’ Note: Assets
Just how much?
Exporting the Revolution
In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)
London (Poverty)
Referencing the history of high-end design magazines, Thatcherism, and London’s financialized housing market, Guo looks at the historical conditions which produced her current “world of interiors.”
Ramadan Diaries: Analysis
...I accidentally apologize back. The next morning, there will be an announcement about U.S. combatants exiting occupied Afghanistan by 11 September, 2021. There is no discussion after the headline read...
The Job of Consent
The Joy of Consent: a Philosophy of Good Sex (October 2023) tests the limits of consent as a heuristic for "good sex," exposing the wide berth between pleasure and what is legible to the law.
Ramadan Diaries: Looking Backward, Looking Inward
...was flashed a phone with an Instagram handle, whose profile image I only remember as colorful grains. Afterward I took my new poetry translation manuscript to The Standard in East...
Mask Off
...as to whose suffering is the most important. At best, this is an instance of conservatives weaponizing conflicting access needs in the service of undermining cross-disability solidarity to achieve political...
Intentions
An excerpt from On the Inconvenience of Other People (2022)
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
Islamic Astropolitik
...while the United Arab Emirates have announced to launch an unmanned mission to Mars by 2021. But not everyone welcomes the imminent era of Muslims in space. A religious organization...
Sunday Reading: May 13, 2023
...more than mediocre content. To which Fabrega adds, “I don’t think the studios think they’re making mediocre content.” In 2021, Business Insider announced that "network executives have reportedly been fretting...
Writing Like a Partisan
Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes offers insight into contemporary Italian fascism
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...Models passing on TV My icon is Akon My motorbike’s broken down, he drives a Ferrari I’m online circulating Pictures of Jay-Z in the Maybach, a clip of Fat Joe’s...