Hot or Not?
...sense of closure. Since 'only' half a million Massachusetts residents lost power and much of the state appears to have dodged the veritable bullet, most people around me have kept...
Power Loss
...widely lampooned by the press. An EMP is essentially a burst of electronic energy that can short-circuit any electrical system within range, including power grids, computers, and communication systems. In...
Alienated Nerds
NFTs as gentrified fandom and the destruction of cultural autonomy in the digital age
"life that could fit in a spreadsheet"
...best way to read this novel. As Rabasa was quick to acknowledge, the protagonist, Max, is a version of himself, and of course the housing complex containing the action of...
Tracing Ana
...Carl Andre’s story about the last night of Ana’s life: the 911 version, in which Carl told the operator that he and his wife were artists and that she had...
How to Waste a Crisis
...in that it has been deployed in at least two distinct ways. One of these is the version popularized by geographer David Harvey, particularly in A Brief History of Neoliberalism....
She Mad and She Magic
...SNCC, the Black Panthers, and other groups organized under the framework of Black Power. of the 1960s, there were relatively few books published about the state of Black life in...
Making Black Lives Matter in the Mall of America
...the south that dealt the fatal economic blow to the confederacy in the Civil War. The economic power of the black community, amplified by the moral clarion call of the...
Nothing Short of a Revolution
...inherent power is evident in the ways we have framed two of the biggest liberation movement leaders—Dr. Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela—in the popular imagination. Their commitment to peace...
A Very Long Winter
...World War II, which seems to haunt us at every turn. At the level of rituals and symbols, we finally followed the version advanced by the Russian state – the...
All Presidents
...and protracted and very hot version of the cold war with Havana and Moscow, in Rhodesia, Mozambique, Angola, and in South Africa itself. Israel, which had at one-time been a...
Cat Power
...which Kitty is framed, by Sanrio itself, as a means of reproducing state power. Following company logic, inasmuch as Japan needs a strong interpersonal network of citizens sustained through practices...
Yellow Fever
Desire is something that’s irrational, and often delusional.
Celluloid Coven
...to be heroes. We could be enchanting, an object of dangerous allure, but never a subject who learns that with great power comes great responsibility. Given great power, we were...
Klein vs. Klein
...only helped stabilize capitalism (and its endless drive for profits), but the compromise helped undermine the disruptive power which had forced the concessions in the first place. The problem with...
Smash Images from Antiquity
...the idol’s destruction, the precise frame where its power evaporates, but the promise isn’t fulfilled. The power may have never been there in the first place, or it may be...