Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
From Autonomen to Antifa
Exploring the roots of modern antifa in the German Autonomen movement of the eighties: an interview with George Katsiaficas
The Management Estate
Objectivity in American newsrooms is a pastiche of colonial subjectivities
Whose Time Is It, Anyway?
The uneven temporalities that structure global capitalism require martyrdom from its least valued commuters
Universal Basic Bullshit
By providing the working class with the absolute bare minimum, universal basic income becomes doomsday prep for the tech billionaire
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The Open Secret
Every system of supremacy produces victims, but in a masculinist one it produces silenced victims
FIC.THE.SKY
Livestream fictioning from the Fierce Festival in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Buenaventura: From “Social Catastrophe” to General Strike
How organizers in Colombia’s biggest port city shut it down for 22 days, winning major concessions from the national government
SIMPARTY
Now, you can party with a simulated version of yourself
You’ll Never See The Northern Lights
The Future is Filled With Bees
Editors’ Note, Vol. 64: Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.
Calm Before, Calm After
Since its 1998 release on the original PlayStation, the Japanese role-playing game Xenogears has become a cult favorite distinguished by its intricate 10,000-year backstory and ambitious plot: As players and characters slowly come to realize, the final boss is none other than god itself, and the game ends with its defeat. In the aftermath, the
The Ellipsis That Told the Tale
Until 1969, there were several attacks on the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno during the student riots in Germany. This story takes place 30 years later, when the roots and conflicts that fueled the incidents are still being felt in a daughter who is reassembling fact and fiction dating back to 250 AD in an attempt
Dream Political Party
The daddy archetypes representing different sexual appeals of the dating-simulator game Dream Daddy are reimagined as “dadsonas” of the political, not parenting, type. In RPG style, you take on the role of an overwhelmed outsider trying to make his way through a party and figure out which ideological hottie to go home with.
The Mask of Zelda: Dark Eternities
It was just an ordinary day in the world of Legend of Zelda. Then everything went topsy-turvy. Content Warning: Violence of every kind.