Sunday Reading
...prison strikes in US history A growing grassroots movement in Mexico is resisting the US-backed drug war "'We’re going to kill all of you,' the [police] officers warned." Aaron Cantú:...
The Plague Years
...is more virus than video and whether it’s dangerous in some way, though this kind of question can be addressed with variations on familiar critiques of mass culture. But a...
Policing the Troubles
...Direct Action Against Drugs (ostensibly set up to rid the community of drug dealers; in practice a pretense for killing them) and you have a veneer of community policing that,...
Born to Lose
...the game — a hallucinatory murderer is compelled to kill, and the quick repetition of appearing and dying pushes that hallucination onto the viewer. While it’s often lamented that video...
None of You
...once observed, bourgeois reformers never solve the problems created by capitalism, because they cannot address the root causes; since you can’t just kill the poor, the next best thing is...
America is Hungry, Let's Eat
...the community, might turn out to innovate the future. After all, who is it that cleared the American frontier of its native detritus, making it possible for us to create...
Labor Does You
What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?
Love, Mystery, and Irrationality
...“Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to gain Cathy, but he would never think of saying that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible. He would...
Killing the Angel in the House
...Time ever slow. Slower than molasses, slower than raw honey: turbinated sugar-time. Devoid of speed, life moved at the pace of number of books devoured, Japanese cartoon series and American...
"Healthy" Nationalism?
...American flags were in fashion, I asked my politics teacher why we (Germans) weren’t allowed to wear our own flag. He said there was a time when we were allowed...
Anatomy of a Dissection
...doesn’t belong there, so she tries to kill it, but only succeeds in cracking its shell. The injured roach sits in front of her with crumpling antennae and pus oozing...
Blogs Round Up
...the idea that if we got rid of the objects themselves, the desire for them, the need for them, and the culture that is built around them and makes them...
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
...mother who waits against the hateful desire to despise a black father in a world designed to kill him. Under Reaganite conservatism, the 80s were peak dad, inspiring our cover--the...
Spring Break Forever
...no Samanthas, no Charlottes, no Mirandas Sarah Nicole Prickett Bikini, Kill Don't hate the slayer, hate the game Ayesha A. Siddiqi Booty Camp A former KIDS kid laments bad girl...
Walter White Supremacy
...skill and experience around, but the science equipment knows objective quality, and there's no competing with the only white guy in the room. These plots expect viewers to cheer while...
Death and the Maiden
...To move beyond the death drive would not restore an earlier state of things but kill the present one, including its division of life into two distinct genders. “Splintered fragments...