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...
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....
The Paradox of Progress
...called progress. Displayed alongside colonized and conquered peoples W.J.T. Mitchell gives a great overview about the multiple connections between dinosaur culture at the American frontier in The Last Dinosaur Book,...
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...
Vol. 76 Editors’ Note: Assets
Just how much?
Sunday Reading
...Don't Do Kwaanza "Serial" as an Asian-American Story Kill the Future The Mouse That Roared: The Democratic Movement in Hong Kong Communism Goes Cute: The Japanese Communist Party’s new kawaii...
The Killing Class
...more one reaches toward a higher definitional value. The police are defined by the power to kill with impunity, period. The police are the killing class. And it is in...
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...
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...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
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...
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...
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.
Daddy
...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 spirit of...
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
...EEK! In 2009, speculations that ??????? might attempt to kill Imp Kerr intensified. Intelligence officials warned that ??????? had arranged her "imminent physical elimination," in Manhattan, in this town,...
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...