The Sweet Smell of Sexcess
...only from a widely-available mucky cloying substitute, a kind of pecuniary decadence. Which, comi ng from a voice as right-on as Nina Power, makes me want On chocolate: I do...
Solidarity with Grad Workers
Who is afraid of the big bad graduate student union?
Usurer Illusion
...compacted. "The power of debt is described as if it were exercised neither through repression nor through ideology," Lazzarato writes. "The debtor is 'free,' but his actions, his behavior, are...
Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing
...life behind bars is a key element of the prison experience that often takes backseat to sensationalist stories. In terms of explanatory power, the acute boredom communicates the impersonality and...
Humid, All Too Humid
...stripped of its power and now sits as a helpless spectator, alongside God, to the big-budget disaster flick that is the contemporary news cycle. This nightmare was not how this...
Sunday Reading
...Nasser is not Hamlet Ayn Rand is pretty excellent as an advice columnist. Dear Ayn Rand People Power 2.0 Backdrop. Dark Arts Summit 39 Ways to Limit Free Speech The...
Turn Down for What?
...in the pamphlet “The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community.” “To the extent that she must in isolation procreate, raise and be responsible for children, a high...
Top or Bottom: How do we desire?
What do queer memes of a top shortage reveal about the racialized orders of desire and new directions for gay critique?
No Dignity, No Doubt
...power control the definition of the word. What if we’ve got Bouazizi’s example all wrong? *** Dignity, after all, has an undignified history. When Kim Jong Il died in December,...
Seen and Unseen; An interview with the authors of a new book on police abuse footage
...which those tools are used and the systems to which those tools are assigned a certain kind of surveillance power. TB: I would agree with Marc completely. I think that...
Eric's Trip
...Writing in the New Statesman in 1980, the late Edward Said traced a line from Orwell’s much celebrated plain-English sensibility to the complacently cozy relationship between journalism and power in...
Editors' Note, Vol. 56: Violence
...(and free access to our archive of back issues) today. • • • THE first commandment of violence is that it precede power; the second, that it pose as power’s...
"Art"
...[President Barack] Obama’s birthday,’ and in ‘seriously poor taste’ ”—point to the latent power of images, and a whisper of what that power might speak. Taken out of context, Cole’s...
The Magnetic North
...come to involve outbound travel, rather than focusing on the transference between patient and mesmerist? During the 19th century, and especially around the 1840s, mesmerists began to ask women under...
Dens of Bureaucracy
...with drug companies and cartels alike during the Cold War to develop various chemical military technologies and leverage on-the-ground power. But this double-dealing led to schizophrenic outcomes. Most spectacularly, during...
Scoreboard Jesus
...on the Mormon Church since Brigham Young University became a national football power,” Jerry Falwell commented when the fundamentalist Christian university he founded entered NCAA Division I football. Given all...