Editors' Note, Vol. 44: Counterfeit
...Versace collaboration, a product is counterfeit only up until it’s recognized on its own merits. Authenticity is not a commodity, but it is a marker of value. Health emerges from...
Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
Bloodless Lies
...echoed much the same sentiment. Laci Green--a YouTube star and one of the “30 most influential people on the Internet,” according to Time--posted a popular video drawing favorable comparisons between...
Sorry, Ladies: No World Hair Cup for Women
...remarkable. Compare the actual "Group of Hair Death" ballot with a prospective ballot featuring those countries' female national players: Why would this be, when, generally speaking,...
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...
"Shadow Run"
...Only empire makes this possible. Image from the 2015 USO calendar....
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...
Syria’s Desaparecidos
...its independent agents, estimates that over 65,000 people disappeared between March 2011 and August 2015. Of all the blood spilled in Syria’s war, forced disappearance has received comparably little attention;...
Vol. 68 Editors' Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
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.
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
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...
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...
Death Immortalized
...formed by a culture industry and critical apparatus that emphasized the closeness of science fiction and utopia, Rieder’s paradigm-shifting book came as a bit of an embarrassing shock. I suppose...
Seeing it Hole
...have witnessed the most important restructuring of global capitalism since WWII, important questions remain. We know that commodities flow through global logistical chains and people, without papers and with them,...
Eugenics: Policing Everything
...American civic authority. State fairs and sesquicentennial exhibitions performed American federalism and nationalism, and eugenic goals—fundamentally aimed to curtail participation in American democracy—were embedded in these communal celebrations. Not surprisingly,...