Lonely Highways in the Land of Jail
...Neil Krug: "Zabriskie Point," 2010 In a grindhouse-grainy cinematic version of my life, I have both the money and know-how to restore muscle cars. I picture myself hopping...
Teenage Screams
...the Hollywood Hills. When the story originally ran in Vanity Fair, it played into the magazine’s ethos of conscientious consumption of celebrity. The film version rolls its eyes at such...
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Dines
...Illustrations from Under the Ocean to the South Pole: Or, The Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder (1907) A version of this post appeared at the original Austerity...
Sunday Reading
...million in giveaways for a basketball stadium "Shared governance and therefore institutional student power will disappear with this change." On Steven Salaita's lawsuit against the University of Illinois and the...
Middle-Class Occupations
...the characterization of Occupy Wall Street as a middle-class phenomenon. One could argue that the power of "the 99 percent" is that it brings together the working classes with the...
Settled History
...the movies of the Weimar Republic to Zero Dark Thirty—the power of historical re-creation to evoke emotional attachment to national identity is self-evident. But historical recreation projects go well beyond...
See Hear
A new book offers a different way of attuning ourselves to images of Black lives.
Seoul to Squeeze
Speculative capital will soon destroy one of the South Korean capital’s most vibrant and diverse working-class neighborhoods.
The Bengali Click Farmer
...the globe. In the click farm economy, Western clients sustain an archaic power dynamic. Bangladeshi workers serve as proxy emoters for the Western users who really matter. But Bradley’s playing...
The History of Dialogue (1): Marx & Lincoln
...Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery. From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen...
Pret à mourir
...power of worker collaboration and cooperation turned inside out and made into a coercive management tool. One's very ability to get along with others is alienated and quantified,amde into somethign...
The Alcatraz Proclamation
...property, Red Power activists occupied it in various configurations from 1969 to 1971. This is the proclamation they issued to the US Government. We, the native Americans, re-claim the land...
Demolition Party
...claim otherwise. Abuse of power, corruption and the misappropriation of funds ripple through China’s urbanization movement. Governmental authorities in cahoots with developers regularly sell land from under rural collectives and...
The Accidental Audience
...that Graham’s sculpture has traveled marks the power of the literal-minded accidental audience as a connector and creator of image meanings. You can already hear the sound of the accidental...
Conspicuous Consumption
...their weakness for flesh. If we never plan to return to veganism, Exvegans.com requested that we please kill ourselves. In one respect, there was something for ex-vegans to like about...
The Science of What Makes Pain So Personal
...to communicate to those on the outside. For decades, scientists hypothesized the physical sensation was closely tied to gender, personal willpower, and ethnic or racial background. But for neurologist Asenath...