Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...a peculiar set of materials. In this case, the name of that project I stopped was related to a messy field of thinking that only coalesced through the practice of...
Agents Without Agency
...ignorance isn’t an excuse for indolence. Ambler makes a point of contrasting his protagonists with the professional spies who come to their aid. The seasoned agents insist on both the...
The Postcapital Economy
...but whether it serves a greater social purpose. The Chinese government will consequently fund contractors to develop public infrastructure and other massive social projects, as well as backstop private enterprise...
Objects of Derision
...and inflected that breakdown. No, that general relation continues on, “untouched and uninjured,” finding new sites and materials. And it does so until the passage of the general through the...
Time Is a Killer
...and, in conjunction with her lack of professional success, is often described as a “middle-aged woman,” struggling to get what’s hers. This scene of doubled theatrics illustrates how in order...
Mara
...else. Every week, he secures his travel pass around his neck, holds you before he leaves, nods to your sister, brother, and mother, and heads to town. He needs a...
All Housing Doesn’t Matter
An interview with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy
A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.
Glossary
...the moment in which the incompatibility of material and categories roars, creeps, or seeps, not into view, but against view. Such that materials - such as a pile of flesh,...
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death
...by death itself. Unless we plan to revolutionize our healthcare infrastructure by dismantling it, as certain critics have suggested in response to the progressive “medicalization of life,” we might instead...
The Souls of Drone Folk
...book. Given the heavy-handed symbolism of Eastwood’s version—cutting back and forth, again and again, between white mother and child and Iraqi mother and child, just to make sure you absolutely...
The Untrustworthy Reader
...five volumes of Appendices and Supplemental Materials; the trial records in Sharon and Westmoreland run to 4,180 and 9,745 pages, respectively. Even an avid reader could never hope to see...
Security Theater
...as the Connecticut chief state medical examiner. It is true that professional actors are sometimes hired to simulate disasters; their purpose is to help large organizations run through emergency response...
Disband West Virginia
...much to unbundle West Virginia already, we need to remember that we cannot let the free market carry the entire burden of destroying a way of life. Should tax-payers subsidize...
The Union Jack and the Southern Cross
...emphatically, "Politics should stay out of sport." An All Blacks marketing campaign by Adidas in 2008. The website, www.thisisnotajersey.com, gave fans the opportunity to have their name literally etched onto...
No Contest
...the epistemological ceasefire that characterized professional athletics is coming to an end. Soon enough, no one will even know what sports is. Blame football. The official NFL rulebook and companion...