Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...will teach them about themselves and build on that. Even if they do somehow go to a so-called “good school,” the school will try to mold them into a facsimile...
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #140
...soldier, sailor. It is not a poem you memorize and recite to demonstrate cultural achievement, or as a means of producing a mental archive of Culture to call upon in...
Victory and Its Consequences (Part II)
...to create a desirable future for the ZAD post-cancellation.10 We could name some other desirable futures: fighting against land grabs by industrial agriculture; self-built housing that frees itself from urban...
Flight for Your Rights
...be opened up to drone flight over the next three years. Unmanned aircraft are coming. A valentine to the military-industrial complex, the act commands the Federal Aviation Administration to work...
Model Architecture: Breaking Godwin’s Law
...architecture” was its scale. “Perhaps it was less their size,” he wrote, “than the way they violated the human scale that made them abnormal.” Hitler’s desire to compare himself to...
Human Nature
...believe, is the key to unlocking an epochal crisis in capitalism. The crisis won’t come from nature alone; capitalism won’t end without us. Most of us tend to operate as...
Sunday Reading
...harassment claims.” The Fear of Water in Flint Timothy Morton on haunted architecture, dark ecology, and other objects “This was on 15 March 2015. Since then Mansour has been detained...
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
Bees Are Dying
...have one thing in common: us. Whether it was monoculture, or pesticides, or breeding, or -- the most likely scenario -- a combination of all three plus global warming, it...
New Masses
...the Western consumer to be moved, and to have that consumer’s beliefs stroked rather than complicated.” For now, global wage disparities make automating service work like this cheaper to conduct...
Administrative Remedy
...avenue to the courts, as the Constitution requires. But it just so happens that I've recently completed a year-and-a-half-long experiment documenting how the system actually operates, having gradually mailed out...
Room Boys
...of insanity, somewhat unusual even for a studied Emirates mouthpiece. "You can be forgiven for mistaking the housing cluster near the Abu Dhabi border for a gated residential community," the...
The Clique Imaginary
...ambition. Whether or not a pop-culture representation of a female friend group will be categorized as a clique hinges largely on whether viewers believe they would be accepted into the...
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
Panpsychism's Labyrinth
...from the “inauthentic.” Bloch’s work “demonstrates a radical indifference to the problem of objectification in culture,” Rabinbach writes, “and therefore to the problem of whether or not objectification constitutes the...
Making Again, Making Against
...African rand, Botswana pula, British pound sterling, Indian rupee, euro, Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, and Australian dollar. This system hasn’t restored trust in Zimbabwe’s monetary systems, though; there is persistent...