Our Star Wars Holiday Special
...wrote his own version of it, and it’s exactly the innocent and dumb bit of fun that it was supposed to be. This is also why the prequels were so...
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
...reader’s voyeuristic gaze, it isn't that version of William Faulkner that the reviewer is referencing. He's talking about the Faulkner who implies a great deal with the sight of Caddy's...
The Last Cat
...day, Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge launched his first missive of the year in an ultimately futile campaign to convince his fellow thought leaders that the American power elite had...
From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
White Feminism and Eugenics: The Case of Gertrude Davenport
...Gilead and to the negation of her own political power. Women similar to Serena Joy can be found throughout history. There were the white women who happily organized on behalf...
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
My Own Private Detroit
...monitoring the streets and cross-coordinating with Detroit’s police databases, many of which are accessible to private security. Staffed by contractors from Securitas, Gilbert’s personal panopticon has come under criticism for...
Editors' Note, Vol. 58: Liquid
...both to self-identify and as a source of resistance. Information companies like IBM try to make sense of our collective sea of data by shaping our individual streams into coherent...
Sunday Reading
...is one of the linchpins of capitalism, because it makes alienated labor possible" "My hologram rendered somehow less complete. A broken stream in the data mind" "Privacy is the power...
Liquid
...It’s eerily appropriate that the people who have dedicated their lives to lubricating and profiting from global financial markets have taken command of the full arsenal of American power. The...
Footnote Records
...advertising money, driven by music fans’ desires to gain a deeper understanding of their favorite songs. Rap Genius is at its core a much more savvy and elegant version of...
Dead Can Dance
...represents some version of the immortality or the presence of the person. Is it a peculiarity of capitalist or white bourgeois society that it doesn’t specify any particular relation to...
MoW Memorandum
...Recommendations provides an opportunity to reflect on the knowledge gained from the immersive experience of waste analytics. The Museum is a work-in-progress. This version of the MoW responds to a...
Seducing the 'Feeble-Minded'
...Hunter into accepting changes. A revised version of the textbook made reference instead to “the union of Martin Kallikak, a young soldier of the War of the Revolution, with a...
Info Wars
...a guarantor of security”--much like in the American version. But Sienkiewicz also points to Eagle 4 as an example of how local media-makers can subvert the strictures imposed by foreign...
Virulence in the Virtual
...you.” She realized that, as a woman and a rape survivor, she would never access the rape/dominance rhetoric that her male opponents enjoyed. That power struggle is culturally understood to...