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...
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.
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...
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...
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
‘At Last, We Are Alive’
...‘We will have a constant flux of investments. The 2014 World Cup will allow Brazil to have a modern infrastructure. In social terms, it will be very beneficial. Our objects...
Melancholic Damage
...can’t fathom why she would intentionally invest in the damage Brown symbolizes. Why continue to put personal and professional resources in to her relationship with Brown, when, at least at...
Misery Loves Company
In László Krasznahorkai’s latest work, the apocalypse has arrived and we’re living in it.
So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar
...infrastructure dedicated to reading and sharing essays into a giant sex apparatus, a flasher’s trenchcoat attached to a digital Rube Goldberg machine. Not that writerly exhibitionism — or a paraphilic...