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...
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.
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
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.
Pasado Compuesto
...Dadi Dreucol (con On_ly), No future, Valencia 2012. All images come from the blog Escrito en la pared. A new social epidemic is gripping Spain: the foreclosure suicide...
Ill-Starred Lives
...elephant obeyed. The gunsmith meanwhile raised a carbine to his shoulder, took aim and fired. The explosive steel-tip bullet it discharged struck home, but it did not kill Castor. Blood...
The White Market
...supremacist glee. The Mexicans can wave their skill and experience around, but the science equipment knows objective quality, and there's no competing with the only white guy in the room....
System Failures
...of the unprecedented connection which allows soldiers based in the United States to survey, track, and kill targets in countries on the other side of the planet, no exchange seems...
Sunday Reading
...Decolonisation of the Mind Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why Why We’re in a New Gilded Age Obituary of a culture Draw Your Professor ...
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...
Politics of Contempt
...I want to focus on the positive, because otherwise I would collapse. For her children, there are no baby steps. They get the same quality of teaching, the same educational...
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...
Vol. 26 Editors' Note: Consent
...realize you, the player, have to finish the job. To do the verb to kill. Technically it’s the only time the game leaves you no recourse but to do it,...
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...