Sunday Reading
...the Truth: "On Sunday, while Occupy Oakland prepared for a mass day of action protesting the prison/industrial complex, Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley published a torrent of disinformation in the...
Sunday Reading
...on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea Legacies of British Slave-Ownership "Americans have never properly confronted the country’s colonial infrastructure or its imperial legacies" Idele Muc, the Al Capone of Tarnów...
The Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 2
...click the image or link below to download Download the Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 2 here. I only agreed to write this...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...may have stumbled across the page, unwittingly searching for a few laughs. Baphomet statue An example that comes very close to trolling, but ends up being satire (done to make...
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Spring Break Forever
...Presenting The New Inquiry's first free supplement, a pdf collection of eight critical essays on Harmony Korine's Disneyland dystopia Spring Breakers Download Spring Break Forever here. Introduction No Carries,...
Fully Surreal Luxury Communism
...political ideas into pictures is useful to illustrate party posters, but it does not follow that the only valid role for the artist is to paint pictures exclusively confined to...
Fire This Time?
Kenya’s Referendum on Public Values
Il faut défendre la société contre les étudiants: Québec's Law 78
...a fire insurance policy that is not valid in cases of fire. I’m talking, of course, about the passage yesterday of Québec's Bill 78 – which lasts for one year...
Sunday Reading
...to usher in a post-human robo-dystopia!” Some of this is valid, some of it…okay, most of it is valid. But sometimes, the public discourse over drones like me becomes so...
You Probably Think This Bot Is About You
When it comes to machines, paranoid assumptions about the world are mutually reinforcing: The New Inquiry’s Conspiracy Bot condenses this recursive symbiosis.
Trigger Warning Week
...women all over the world are hearing when they hear respected commentators (I’m not talking here about Galloway or Alvin, although I’m sure there are a great many people who...
Sunday Reading
...UC regents meet this week at the remote, securitized UCSF Mission Bay campus. Agendas worth checking out: the Committee on Finance (pdf) lists 20+ lawsuits with bearing on the UC,...
Sunday Reading
...nathan jurgenson: “A simple piece of software got us through the dark ages of computing” "The Decelerator Helmet is an experimental approach for dealing with our fast moving society...a...
Sunday Reading
...1988 that forced Pretoria to set Namibia free and helped break the back of apartheid South Africa.” “The tree that says ‘yes’: Césaire’s Nature and Revolutionary Universalism” “‘Why is this...
Towards a 'Moral' Assassination Model
...Funeral inside Gaza City Mosque following an Israeli drone attack that killed three people, including a five-year old child, during Operation Pillar of Cloud. Image by Christopher Furlong/Getty...