The Potato System
...Peeling back the layers of this humble vegetable's history reveals that, no matter how you slice it, there's power in spuds Illustrations from Potato Magazine (1920) Nothing orients like...
In the Wake of An Erosion
...that white people have something to gain, not just to lose, by betraying whiteness, can we truly understand the potential to be found in complicity. It’s no surprise that Moten...
Commies for Christ
...communities doing social transformation that start by making a home for the dispossessed. Otherwise, the Church may be tempted to sell its stately buildings for conversion into condos. Gargamelli quotes...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 2)
...output because he has been supplied with the fuel that builds man power. Plants everywhere have learned by actual experience that warm meals overcome the depressing effect of winter's chill...
How Many Licks
...threat of the bite. Outside of a penetration-centric framework, the mouth can actually be imagined as having a great deal of power, or at least a momentary hegemony through enclosure....
Save the World
...could be doing something better with our time than this. Let's turn whatever power we have against this whole phony construct of "rebels" and "the empire" and focus on how...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...feelings about elections. I grew up watching President Balaguer commit electoral fraud in the Dominican Republic over and over to remain in power. His party would lie, disappear votes, and...
Precarity and "affective resistance"
...unionism has given bosses more power. I understand why some leftists have problems with precarity as a concept (and more particularly, its companion, the precariat, the alleged emerging class composed...
Exporting the Revolution
In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)
Un(der)known Writers: Flavia Dzodan
...The Hague this weekend, which gathered around five hundred white Dutch people showing “support” for this character, was a demonstration of power. That is, the power of the White majority...
How to Destroy a Community
...untie the binds of community by putting pressure on the group until individuals stop thinking of themselves as part of the larger collective. Power blocs in Eve are made up...
Chemistry
...just to fall in love with the service.” In an effort to destabilize white women’s contemporary narratives around sexual power, Hiji Nam interviewed Grace M. Cho, associate professor of sociology,...
The Paradox of Progress
...for the power of computer generated images. But a century before that, their skeletons were exhibited at imperial spectacles and world fairs in Europe and North America where they stood...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 67: Chemistry
We must name the monsters within, and claim the monstrosities we have had a hand in creating.
Decolonizing Israel
...hopeful about the efficacy of grassroots organizing in opposition to state power. Palestine, in this analysis, is both immediate and symbolic. Abunimah’s emphasis on the competing moralities of Zionism versus...
A Taste of Cesium
...year after the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011, people venturing into the twenty-kilometer exclusion zone around the stricken power plant in Fukushima found...