Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
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...
Special Victims
...of the defilement, rehabilitation, and revenge that high-grossing movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, and Gone have since employed. Recent films like Miss Bala and Martha...
All Eyez on Not-Me
...Kill, and Nirvana. It’s surprising that such a notoriously skeptical generation seems to have embraced (or at least not dismissed outright) Holopac. As a culture we are seemingly obsessed with...
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.
Encore
A Second Letter from Paris
Living is Easy
...When it comes to summer entertainment, movies are shouting about nothing into empty theatres. Then they kill everyone Summer movies promise us many things, but mostly they promise recognizable...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
Fear of an Ape Planet
...and tears up the lab, forcing Franco’s boss to shut down the project and kill all the chimps. (Un)Luckily, Franco smuggles Bright Eyes’s son Ceasar (who has inherited his mother’s...
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...