Baby Heists
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism
Fun With Agamben!
The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn
World of Weathercraft
...conveys the sense that these things are always beyond our power, that the weather is completely external to effect or intervention. In the growing struggle for ecological and social equity,...
Factory Made
A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls
Dinner with Caligula
...time than Stalin did just sitting around the dinner table eating and drinking,” said Khrushchev. As an instrument of power, however, spectacle may boomerang on the one who wields it....
Chaos Will Set You Free
Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a novel that embraces its own instability to narrate the palimpsests of violence that bind the U.S. and the Philippines
Fear of an Ape Planet
...to be enough, especially as the film ends with Aibileen’s being fired: She gets psychological uplift, but her social and economic power is actually diminished. Many “serious” critics (David Edelstein,...
"I don't normally do this kind of thing": 45 small fates
...use his left hand. 11 God is in all things. In Lagos, ThankGod was murdered by his brother. In Abuja, Godswill was appointed Minister of Power. 12 “It’s...
Where the Hell Do You Think You Are?
...Jewry, socialism, homosexuality etc. When Hynkel dances so lightly, so comically, with the entire world hanging in the balance of every gesture, it underlines that power experiences itself as freedom,...
Seeing Stars
...Courtesy artificialgallery.co.uk MAY1ZZZ, lilo Lindsay Lohan fanpop.com Taranenko, Rihanna, 2011 DeviantArt.com Brothers De La Motte, Paris Hilton’s selfie, Undated imsoqueer, Mary-Kate, 2011 DeviantArt.com Cameron Gray, Oops...I did it again, 2007...
Narrative of Fragments
...day I go on great binges of information, skittering from one tidbit to the next, reading in quick gulps. At once, I've downloaded six episodes of Mad Men and tweeted...
'Tis the Season: The Beheld Gift Guide
...treasures: a feature on the importance of wigs in the drag community, a cheeky but informative rundown of hairstyles in contemporary history, a look at modernized versions of Victorian hair...
Don't Be a Stranger
...logic as an underground punk club is from a computer lab? Once upon a time this social network did exist, and it was called Makeoutclub.com. Nobody much talks about Makeoutclub.com...
Fact Check!
...be compared to the news organizations’ data and Wikipedia.” This would result in a live video displaying the “truth level” of a speaker’s sentence, along with reactions from Twitter —...
An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America
...so that the clinic's work could be published and shared in the wider scientific community. In an era when reproductive health was based more on myth than scientific data, Stone's...
Protected: Creating a Blog
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