Decolonizing Israel
...struggle to international movements of decolonization in new media venues, coming together under the name of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions [BDS] movement. BDS is not simply a political tactic. Even...
Dutch Treat
...work bench, the latest lottery, the latest lottery winner, a ship's return to harbor, the passing of an illness, the purchase of a new home. Sometimes they feasted simply for...
The Standing Vote
...latest attempt to eradicate Native Americans on Turtle Island. This is why over 300 Native American tribes have brought their flags to Standing Rock in an unprecedented show of solidarity:...
Our Man in Great Neck
...photo of Soviet Boyscouts Sunset in Krasnodar The Guardian Angel My grandmother and I wrap up our interview, chatting about the family and leafing through the stacks of materials she...
The White Man’s Boredom
Governing empire was deadening to its administrators, and lethal to its victims
Like a Dog
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.
Sunday Reading
...levels." China's latest building binge: the education factory Karen Gregory: The Drone Papers The Secret Surveillance of ‘Suspicious’ Blacks in one of the Nation’s Poshest Neighborhoods We are Citizens, Not...
City of the Moon
...aided by the landscape’s gentleness, which hides the infrastructure of occupation that still covers the region. But whether hopes for the construction of an alternative Palestinian dream in Jericho turn...
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide
TNI Vol. 11 Editorial Note: On the Movement of Food
...Rothstein interviews food geographer Nicola Twilley on counterfeit ketchup and the infrastructure of refrigeration. Food connects individual bodies to the circuits of production, but that linkage is never clean or...
Sunday Reading
...works both forward and backward in time.” A note on infrastructure and #blacklivesmatter The Fiery Underground Oil Pit Eating L.A. Listening to the Living and the Dead: Ruminations on #justiceforLeelahAlcorn...
Ghostbusters
...notes that like one of Johnson’s other literary idols, Proust, Johnson was “searching for lost time” in her last works, yet also, like Walter Benjamin’s storyteller, “going over a whole...
Called to Account
...by hijacking evaluative metrics or reworking neoliberal discourses of personal responsibility. Debt to Society’s dedication to careful elaboration makes it an ideal tool for critics, artists, and activists searching for...
Minor Cords
...them, posting on message boards and public forums. I’ve cast about for a tether, someone else with a shared experience, searching the way a person might look for their birth...
The Viral Virus
...imagine that we are actually suffering from them: Who among us hasn’t become convinced a cough was a sign of a malignant lung tumor after searching WebMD? With mental illnesses,...
Sunday Reading
...their books." Scott Ross: The Rehetorical (De)evolution of Affirmative Action. Angus Johnston on Fisher v. Texas. Soul-Searching for Diversity at UT Austin. Fisher v. Texas and the Problem of Proof....