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...
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...
"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
Queens Live @ The Kitchen
...text and performance draws on communist, feminist, and afropessimist theory, autobiographical fragments, and pop music as a collective imaginary. She is a contributing editor at The New Inquiry. Sarah Nicole...
City Hunger
...pass that the wind would make her clothes flutter and uncover her legs that seemed to be made of scarlet, milk and music all mixed together”—but he is awake to...
Daddy O
...my favorite obscure band, and the smiles I get (nearly all from men over fifty) feel like the knowing glances exchanged by two music nerds passing in the street. Joe...
Arguing the Web
...Music: Siriusmo, "Einmal in der Woche schreien" (Monkeytown Records) Vol. 3 of TNI Magazine: Arguing the Web is being sent out to subscribers today. If you're a subscriber,...
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...
TNI REX (2)
...Government on arts education and the culture of its citizens." Rob Horning, Executive Editor Music: "Dream Gerrard" by Traffic Like much of Traffic's late-period output, this song, from its last...