Hurt People
The state cannot destroy us the way we destroy each other
Dumb Computers, Smart Cops
...plausible pretense for claiming that power. Hamilton is thinking, in other words, of HAL 9000. There is the literal-minded misreading of contradictory orders that could result in all human life...
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Internet
...years of ideas about what constitutes the “social” while giving the “network” undue power. We attribute consciousness to the network itself—rather than to the people who constitute it—in the same...
Not Great Men
...theme of the pettiness engendered by power and the cumulative personal sacrifices it necessarily compels. Simenon, whose attitude toward writing was something like ordinary people’s attitude toward breathing, seems to...
Belles Lettres
...her story cannot have a happy ending because, in this society, she has no other power.” Once we understand that beauty is a mere stand-in for real power, we see...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 61: Conspiracy
Just because they’re after you, doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.
Autonomy in Kurdistan
...women were fighting shoulder to shoulder with men. The success of Kobane comes from this. The true power behind this success is the actualization of the highest level of creativity,...
Don't Be A Hero
...Jordan Flaherty's No More Heroes describes the harm committed by the modern-day do-gooder, but stops short of outlining systems of power that uphold the hero role AT the tail...
You Deserve It, Sweetie
...highly compensated work that fulfills the neoliberal ideal of perfectly egosyntonic labor (like my parents) so that it doesn’t feel like work. The coercive power of capitalism is so strong...
Women in armed struggle
...of power that capital has used and will try to continue to use until the bitter end. Fundamentally, the power of the strongest section, salaried men, against the power of...
Kenya’s Security Act: The Human
...the ideal citizen also belongs to one of the dominant ethnic and racial groups. While dominant refers to numbers, it also refers, more specifically, to power: those who because of...
Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
Addicted to Failure
...all that was needed to secure total power over the economic activity therein. “I had developed a theory that most people lost money in stocks through ignorance of markets,” he...
Disgorge the Cash
...It’s the iGetsomemoneyback.” Given the spectacular success of the iPad launch a few months later, Aronds’ complaint would seem singularly ill timed. But no: It was prescient. In 2012, under...
What the hell is the family?
...a privatized mode, entrusted to women’s work, who reproduce labor power as mothers and housewives: a heavy labor, not salaried, socially unrecognized, and barely thanked. Commending this work to work...