Sunday Reading
...teachers' strike adds power to nationwide movements against inequality and racism Clock is ticking on the destruction of Chicago police misconduct files The real story of Sandra Bland "You know...
Paradise Lost
The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams
The Body Always Remembers
...all in your head,” you’re not really in pain, and there’s a lot of shame around mental illness in our culture, too. So if your pain stems from trauma, then...
Time Is a Killer
...looks like she’s in her eighties. Look how wise she is, he speculates. Women, as carriers of culture, develop wrinkles that tell fortunes. Wise old creatures… Myrtle as Myrtle will...
Plague Existentialism
A Tentative COVID-19 Self-Quarantine Reading List
Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
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...
Tinderization of Feeling
...Tinderized form of intimacy. Swipe right, match, date, fuck, unmatch, rematch, repeat. As any exposure to Tinder teaches, nothing matters unless you want it to matter. This a line to...
The Untrustworthy Reader
...thirty-four were killed ... and, as the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders ... put it, of those thirty-four dead blacks ‘several ... were killed by mistake.’ ” There is...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Warning
...begun laying siege to a second, the governor of Minnesota held a press conference in which he claimed that white supremacists were coming from out of state to instigate violent...
Critical Moments: Strength Through Unity
...groups relative. Individuals and groups are admissible in so far as they come within the State. Instead of directing the game and guiding the material and moral progress of the...