Life Is Too Much Like Real Life
...every function—it’s hard not to see a certain parallel with how capitalism is killing and eating liberalism. Our heroes spend most of the movie being completely at a loss as...
Masters of Suspicion
...countries like Mexico or Colombia, or, for that matter, of the persistence of the revolutionary socialist government in Cuba. When militants of the Mexican Ejercito Popular Revolucionario kill soldiers and...
Labor Does You
What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?
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...
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...
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Butterfly Effect
...asunder, or stamp upon them, they still persist in living. But a butterfly is killed easily enough, and the only difficulty is to know how to kill it without damaging...
personal crusade against alzheimer’s
...douglas huebler, duration piece #31, boston, 1974: one silly concept (kill them all), roughly shooting time. although the huebler piece --and onofre's evenly-- doesn't immerse me into nostalgia, powerlessness, is...
You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
...In 1893, Mary Kingsley found herself with six months to kill, so she went to Africa. But the thing about being a Victorian lady is that you can go...
Black Riot
The difference between riots and protests has more to do with who and where than what
Life: Why Bother?
...want to purposely kill all those zygotes, infants and/or pre-adolescents to swell heaven’s ranks? A more palatable solution might be for hell-believers to accept the logic of the sectarian repugnant...
Testing
...them. As a high school cheater, Lauren O’Neal recounts, sharing answers felt like solidarity. Cheating provided a precious moment of support — which was manifestly absent from teachers who imposed...
Sunday Reading
...stole the education from its black children "Even if the police don’t kill me, a lifetime of preparing for them to just might." Kitabet: Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry...
Carceral Capitalism
Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.
A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye
a dispatch from Dahye, published in collaboration with the New York War Crimes