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...
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...
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...
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
Kindergarten/Cops
...surprised when taller versions of the boys come out of criminal court without belts and shoelaces. When I hear that a kid a few years older than David got caught...
The New Inquiry Vol. 52: New Masses
...represents a distributed network of power, an inverted military bureaucracy, keeping constant tabs on its captives and combatants alike. An indelible image of what American fascism looks like appeared on...
SURPLUS
Excerpted from Health Communism (2022)
New Masses
...of social media through Baudrillard’s gnomic writing on the “masses.” These abstract publics undergo a paradoxical inversion. “For Baudrillard,” Horning writes, “deindividuated populations ruled over through monitoring, statistical modeling, and...
"To 'blow one's mind' means to become more aware."
...totally administered postwar society. He's not big on data and has nothing of the dilettante social scientist about him; he's more a polemicist who prefers to level unsubstantiated accusations against...
Liberalism is Dead
Silicon Valley’s techtopian libertarianism points to a disruptive left fascism for the 21st century
Surplus Rebellions
...Note that most data in this study refer to male employment.[/r] The shift toward an industrial and then deindustrializing economy has had, that is to say, a racialized component; since...
The Pleasure Model
...of the power dynamics inherent in sexual relations between actual people. Sure, sex is pleasurable. Sex can be fun. But sex is also complicated. Power is tossed around the sheets...
Intentions
An excerpt from On the Inconvenience of Other People (2022)
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
...version of Africa, one constructed of kings, queens, and soap, while his sister leaves their home for an Ivoirian man, but neither daddy’s patriarchal power remains intact by the end....
Spectrum Order
...this problem. In Foer's version, Oskar learns not only the truth about his family, but that his quest was never really what he thought it was. His agency was never...
Body / Cock: The Body That is Not Personal
This is how I learn to live life with death as my equal