Scenes Resembling Civil War
...when the police tried to evict encampments or sweep protesters off the street. It is always tempting to draw direct historical comparisons between past and present social movements. But one...
The Unmanageable University
...commitment to turning the UC into a more efficient factory, by shifting to online education, prioritizing teaching over research, and pushing students through as quickly as possible. The call for...
Rome, 1974
...the photos after, it really was like the whole piazza had been made into a place for rubbish, with junk all over the ground, and although my parents tried to...
Hackers Gonna Hack
...company says they’re going to protect it, and I don’t think consumers would look too kindly on an organization that said, “A hacker tried to tell us about this thing...
Real Human Being
...is not what is, but rather the culture-specific image that our neurology reproduces. “This belief system is calcified by our commitment to this belief system,” writes Mignolo. But this seeing...
The Taste of Earth
...that people from South Asia have been here for 5000 years. I pointed out that culture changes and we cannot make a direct link between what may have happened 5000...
For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian
For María Lugones
The State of the Unions
A group of people from various positions and experiences with labor unions and worker movements gathered to discuss the problems and potential of labor organizing today. What follows is an edited version of their conversation.
She Mad and She Magic
...named for its author, the Assistant Secretary of Labor — claimed that “the Negro community has been forced into a matriarchal culture [which] imposes a crushing burden on the Negro...
An Evening with Gulf Labor @ The New School
...of a publication, The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor. This event features reports by Gulf Labor members Nitasha Dhillon, Mariam Ghani, Amin Husain, Andrew Ross and Gregory Sholette and focuses on...
"Venice drowning! Venice drowning! Venice drowning!"
...brief note: all hitherto existing illustrations and popular culture descriptions of mermaids have totally fucking lied. Totally. Because they always show them as sexless and assholeless, as sexless as angels...
From Autonomen to Antifa
Exploring the roots of modern antifa in the German Autonomen movement of the eighties: an interview with George Katsiaficas
Mara
...not complain if she finishes the food. Six months ago, a hawk tried to snatch Damaris, who has always looked small and light. Zipporah fought off the hawk, but the...
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...Jetlir, Tom, Pia, and Anna attend. “We want our pupils to learn how to use the Internet productively,” says music teacher André Spang, “Not just for clicking around in.” Spang...
Travel and Anti-Travel @ Mansion 1/14
... An evening of reading and music based on travel, anti-travel, epistles, history, and other weary geographies. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi will read from two forthcoming books: epistolary fiction...