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...
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...
SURPLUS
Excerpted from Health Communism (2022)
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...
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...
Liberalism is Dead
Silicon Valley’s techtopian libertarianism points to a disruptive left fascism for the 21st century
"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...
Venerated Members
...inhuman was passed off as Rasputin’s dick. An earlier version circulated after Rasputin’s 1916 murder, legendary for being long and difficult: an initial failed poisoning, followed by multiple gunshots, a...
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....
Sunday Reading, June 18, 2023
...differentially valued lineages. His mother and father raise him in their version of Africa, one constructed of kings, queens, and soap, while his sister leaves their home for an Ivoirian...
Daddy
...their 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...
Break It Down
...on image-making, but the Traditions of the Prophet, the Hadiths, object to using images to usurp God’s creative power. From those Hadiths come such narratives as the one in the...
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...
Black Life, Annotated
...to law enforcement, without an indication of the source.” This work raises profound ethical questions. And by ethical questions, I mean questions of power. “I am interested in ethics,” says...
Leak, Memory
...leak prosecuted. Scott McClintock elucidates the complex relationship of the Defense Department’s strategic release of videotape and photographs of the detainees in January 2002 with the loss of power and...