Spy vs. History
...Vietnam, there’s no real hope of parity; The Sympathizer is up against a much greater volume of weaponized culture. The spy models that difficulty while working as a technical consultant...
Mourning
...the idea that human culture itself can be thought of as an elaborate work of mourning, our lives beholden to an original loss. Laqueur’s new book on death unearths the...
Thanksgiving is Bullshit
...Day. While the Fourth of July commemorates American independence from Great Britain—on the field of battle and print culture, with the publication of the Declaration of Independence—her vision of a...
A Time for Treason
...Security Culture, CrimethInc EFF Surveillance Self Defense The Intercept's Surveillance Self Defense against the Trump Administration Things To Know About Web Security Before Trump’s Inauguration How Journalists Can Protect Themselves...
Black President
...that popular culture will always orient itself toward the president, although sometimes it’s a more powerful orientation than other times. The only thing that happened when Bush was president was...
Artistic autonomy and subsumption
...a feeling of autonomy? What does it even matter if an artwork is autonomous? Doesn't that just mean that the culture has succeeded in depoliticizing it? Is autonomy a form...
In Defense of Looting
...Precisely the image that the Ferguson police tried to evoke to assassinate Michael Brown’s character and justify his killing post facto. It is a completely righteous and understandable position. However,...
Reader's Digest
...A Review of Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac So strange and hectic a phantasmagoria were the streets of the...
Plantation Neoliberalism
...opposite direction.” It is, in other words, a flight from reconstituted plantations to somewhere else, a refusal of work and work’s culture whose negative movement opens space for something new....
St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene
...How does such a definition come to take hold, when the culture it emerges from is filled with very explicit accounts of horror, from the zombie film to the serial...
Take Me Away
A love letter to Mariah Carey
The Souls of Ivy Folk
...invitation with a torrent of JPEGs tagged with commentary on rape culture, on the allegations against him, and further lambasting his hypocritical respectability politics. I have no idea what he...
Anti-Fascisting
“None of us, under capitalism, can claim to be wholly free of fascism.” An interview with Natasha Lennard.
Lessons From a New History of ACT UP: An Interview with Sarah Schulman
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power began as a revolutionary liberation movement––so what happened?
Reality Fiction
...to me that maybe inadvertently you sort of put yourself into the literary tradition. SH: I guess all of us were watching TV. And it felt like the whole culture,...
Hurt People
The state cannot destroy us the way we destroy each other