Enigma Deviations
...answer would probably depend on whether or not such reflexive activity is common among humans. Duplicitous or part-hidden subjects, such as spies or queers, have long had to know a...
Judging Books by Their Covers
...content of the conversation with the selected artist. As with art objects, these books cater to a collector’s impulse. A reader who buys one is often compelled to buy another,...
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...artists are making, we can hear ethically-informed responses to the transnational economic order that did not originate Morocco’s crises of unemployment or rising inequality, but continues to intensify them. Behind...
The Potato System
...Whereas the Commission recommended that local authorities step up food production, the propertied classes for their part tabled a more extreme solution: eliminate the potato in order to eliminate the...
The Flies That Bind
...grounds between engines spinning trash from matter. What then later reconfigures that rubbish into fecund paste isn’t machine but animal. Like Cairene pigs, abjured porcine uncanny. Humans are anti-rubbish. This...
"Fractals" by Joanna Walsh: Short Story and Giveaway
...as a wounded woman like something in stone, infinitely moving and just a little silly. In order to retain my position I must be wounded constantly. This is painful, but...
A Conspiracy Between the Far-Right and the #J20 Prosecutions
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
Post-coloniality Sells
...humans come from him. The novel was was a nod towards the Ganda creationist myth. The first king of Buganda was also Kintu, so the title suggests a beginning and...
The Virtual Watchers
...Moreover, we found people watching from Puerto Rico, México City, Canada and the UK. See the figure that follows. The Virtual Watchers, Joana Moll & Cédric Parizot, 2016 There was...
Women in armed struggle
...abroad for a cheap price. Generally, we could go mad with pain during birth, “assisted” by sadistic doctors, we could be raped and beaten, assured that the “forces of order”...
You Deserve It, Sweetie
...making money seem benevolent and unconditional, sweetie. In order to believe that you deserve the glut of resources and love that comes with being a respectable member of the middle...
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
...science over tradition and superstition, instrumental reason’s order over unruly emotion and intuition, rational mechanistic dominion over chaotic nature, and the autonomous self over community. The subjugated half of this...
New World Order
...time to believe in the current order of things, least of all because it’s barely managing to stay put. We’ll only see its true shape as it comes apart....
Queer, Interrupted
...simply wait out the violence of the queer-hostile social order that the cop upholds is a negating obscenity. It does violence to the traditions of the queer struggle for life...
(a jet lagged mess)
...on anything, why twitter’s mishmash of #Ferguson and everything else seems a more or less appropriate lack of order for my brain right now, and why focusing on one thing...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 66: Bad Faith
...shown, this contractual order already operates in bad faith, as it allows for patriarchal control of the social order to persist. The law, as everybody knows, only codifies what power...