Victory and Its Consequences (Part II)
...occupiers and support committees, as well as several sympathetic media figures, winning was tantamount to going over to the dark side. In order to maintain membership in “the party of...
Against Students Stories
...get replicated by the others and it adds up to a compelling (but misleading) narrative. Take, for example, the fact that the USA Today story links to and relies on...
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
...xoJane.com (after failed attempts to resolve her drug addiction) and subsequently joined Vice as their “pills and narcissism” correspondent with a column titled “Amphetamine Logic.” As writers buzzed about Marnell’s...
Dogshit Orgasm
...Medical marijuana dispensaries started cropping up across California and Canada. Colorado soon followed suit when an amendment legalizing medical marijuana was approved in 2000. Around the same time medical marijuana...
Beach Generation
...depend on the violence of borders for those who do not hold the correct passport. An easyJet flight is cheap, quick and safe, compared to the expensive, slow and deadly...
Natural's Not In It
...notion that humans adapted to vastly different circumstances than the ones they live under today — that before the relatively recent shift to an agriculture, industry- and internet-based society, we...
Nightmares of 1965
...in destructive ways—with regards to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and gender—that comes from our subconscious fear of the consequences of being marked as different that the New Order inculcated...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part Two)
...constitutionally protected free speech laws, to prosecute individuals at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Face covering prohibitions took hold in Canada when legislators in Québec passed an emergency anti-protest act....
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...purposes. Privilege, misery, racism, abuse of power, and 'surviving in hell': 'We're organizing.' [Youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa7n-dUi_ZE While doctors were overwhelmed, under-equipped, and indignant by the number of injuries flooding their hospitals,...
The Honeyed Siphon
...purpose of reproducing a social order that would sooner kill its humans than rearrange itself. What haven’t changed, despite this social inversion of Type 2 cases, are the forms of...
Human Nature
...crisis for capitalism. Rather than the apocalyptic “end of nature” that Bill McKibben wrote of, Moore emphasizes an epochal end of "cheap nature." In order to accept that capitalism is...
London (Poverty)
Referencing the history of high-end design magazines, Thatcherism, and London’s financialized housing market, Guo looks at the historical conditions which produced her current “world of interiors.”
Fossil Fools
...this meant that the railroad would take a loss on the capital invested in mining companies in order to maintain profits on something else, like, say, the transportation of steel...
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
The Science and Spectacle of the Swarm
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
Don't Be a Stranger
...Canada. They got along. Dana slept over at Austin’s apartment that night and missed her flight. When Dana got back to Canada they kept in touch, and within a few...