Fires of Resistance
...Outrage aimed at freedom, collective action rooted in love, the active defiance of injustice. Until we’re all free: A refrain turned echo. A call to commune with other collectivities in...
Syria and the Left: A Call to Arms
...man in his twenties from Homs and currently living in California, is struggling to survive with his wife and eight-month-old daughter in the United States. “I’m a professional baker. I’m...
The Art Kettle
...nor any population committed to basic democratic freedoms ought to submit. But this “kettling” technique, now fast becoming an almost procedural feature of British government, is nothing new, not even...
When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician. His latest collection, titled simply […], was written in the months following Israel's escalation of genocide in Gaza—which killed many of Joudah's family members.
Knocked Out Loaded
...night. Frank healed over the ensuing days, and weeks, and months, but he was never satisfied with any explanation he could craft. Zelda, he remains sure, would simply never have...
Camp Walker
...all night hassling. Despite all this, we come to Camp Walker lured by the promise of free food and beer, neither of which ever materialize. Instead, you can buy popcorn...
Virulence in the Virtual
...the game, that your avatar at some point will be abused, violated, dismembered, and exterminated” (Powers 197). Furthermore, the user is free at any time to simply leave the game,...
Post-Exotic Novels, NČŻvelles, and Novelists: Part One
...is a new evaluation and outlook. I won’t comment on the complete absence of comments upon its publication. We simply want to take the opportunity here to shine a spotlight...
The Paper Chase
...so wildly in price. But it’s simply wrong to imagine that the history of alternative currency begins with Bitcoin, and it’s potentially harmful to ignore the much more progressive, community...
I Want to Believe
...Just because we can hear the black helicopters doesn’t mean they don’t exist My old co-driver Nick and I would pass the time on interstate furniture deliveries by assessing...
In Praise of Fake Reviews
...in how they express themselves on Yelp, Yelp itself is remarkably free of constraints. A restaurateur may complain that a reviewer’s opinion is not based on fact, but that’s not...
Unafraid
This was the 15th raid Superman had thwarted across the country
Theory Porn
...from subjugation and shame. There are multiple drafts of the essay. The first is called “Sex Slaves: The Modern, the Foreign, the Free.” A later version is renamed “The Pornography...
The Ahmeds in America, Part Two
...on their ID cards than their actual birth date, and whether anyone can ever be sure about their “real” age. Their birth dates must have simply been invented - necessitated...
Fame Shame
...care that once felt radical, and by what, inevitably, gets lost through their absorption into dominant and marketable culture. I’m not sure we can profess our commitment to radical community...
Trespassing Horizons
Reflections on cybernetics as an ideology of organized oblivion