The riots provided a long-sought opportunity for settling scores; rioters spoke of 'payback.' - Investigative report on the 2011 London Riots conducted by the Guardian and The...
Surpassed by history, will the novelist put down his pen? FOR a writer who has made a career out of understanding the increasing pace of contemporary life, DeLillo...
If sports have value, it is as art. They are a platform on which athletes and teams stretch themselves to species capacity for the ephemeral brilliance of...
Still from Boyhood (2014) Richard Linklater's new movie Boyhood is a formal accomplishment and a narrative hazard In that the formal premise exceeds the story, Richard Linklater’s...
Saoirse Ronan/Emily Browning The Young-Girl doesn’t look like a dead body, as one might presume from reading women’s magazines; she looks like death itself. Tiqqun, Raw Materials...
"Like the reader of Milton’s Paradise Lost who sympathizes with Satan, only to be reminded of his own fallen nature, the viewer is implicated in Ari’s shaming. Up...
photos courtesy of Doomtree I sat down to talk with the seven members of the Doomtree Collective a few minutes before their show at The Gramercy Theatre....
The disappearing work-life divide and the feminization of abstract labor in Sleeping Beauty In the opening scene of Julia Leigh’s debut film Sleeping Beauty, Lucy (Emily Browning),...
All this global capitalist food infrastructure, and still nothing to eat. A review of Alexandra Kleeman's novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine In the 1957...
If we view love as a complex and contradictory social script rather than shorthand for the highest good, it’s hard to separate the right to care from...
http://youtu.be/618U-_8o31k “Pledge of Allegiance” — a sketch from The Whitest Kids U’ Know A review of John Marsh’s Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way...
So-called left-wing Zionism is white nationalism by another name Michael Walzer is an unlikely nationalist. Where many political philosophers, especially on the center-left, tend to think of nation-states...
In imagining a homogenized future labor force, accelerationism ignores how capital opportunistically sustains difference to survive Communists are not supposed to like capitalism. If there’s one thing everyone...