Eminent Domain
...the bottom to provide the same thing. Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — domain suffixes like .com, .net, or .org — are available to anyone. The Internet has routinely been described...
Coming & Crying
...An interesting project to be aware of: Coming & Crying. Coming & Crying is an effort by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell to publish a new book...
Dancing Days
...Throw making money off of sex into that equation, and the stakes are raised. Send your feedback and responses to [email protected]. But when Mike says those lines, we actually believe...
Being Boys
Make masculinity and its traces quake at the impending danger creeping up on it
Already Pretty Giveaway
...Sally will be giving away a signed copy of Already Pretty to a reader of The Beheld chosen at random from all comments on this post (whether at the-beheld.com, The...
"Performance in Shailja Patel's 'Migritude'"
...(or on amazon.com) I want to tease out and play with that distinction. There’s a tension, a felt tension between: “Migritude” the “one-woman show,” traveled around the world this book,...
Bail Bloc
A cryptocurrency scheme against bail.
Wall, Ground, Air
...wall and compare its securitarian spectacularity with the ones built at the edges of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in the last decade. We then address the question of the ground...
Cruise Control
...spaces where men could come together — the ruined factory cities — have been swept up in the name of real-estate values. The privatized remnants of this vibrant sex culture,...
Pont Blank
...I’ve tried to tell this story. For nearly two years, I’ve been sending versions of what follows into the most important photographic journals and magazines. As you might expect, the...
Santorum's Gifts
...George Stephanopoulos on Saturday, Santorum tried to limit himself to emphasizing the honor and dignity of labor that does not require a degree: STEPHANOPOULOS: Now getting to college has been...
May the curse of labor be cursed, may the ineluctability of production become its sorrow
...themselves and tried to take control, visibly or secretly. What's of interest, then, in the text is neither their rather flat account of how "repressive society," that endlessly indistinct notion,...
Cosmopolitican, or Cosmetics as Police Regime
...for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice tried to force a woman out of the mall after they spotted her wearing nail polish. The difference between this...
A Bridge to Somewhere
...people in an unventilated metal box for hours get really hot, and a few started to get faint. We shifted them to the cooler floor, and tried to conserve water....
Vol. 71 Editors' Note: Escape
How the hell do I get out of here?
Love Homoscopes
...ableism, all those jerks together at that intersection of extraction have always tried to relegate and regulate the practitioners of the occult because it is a very powerful social space....