Language Under House Arrest
Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity
(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
...Head novel, let’s try the one that won’t confuse people. DONE. I’m giving Nicholls some good-natured sass, here (sorry dude), because, as someone who studies, reads, and teaches contemporary African...
Canceled Message (Part Two)
...one in which the internet becomes a "stream," an image that conjures more of a gently babbling brook than the digital culture shock I just described. The ubiquity of the...
Scents of an Ending
...presence. Infighting began almost immediately, which should not have come as a surprise. Those present belonged to a diverse spectrum of political and ideological camps, united despite it all in...
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...
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...
Sunday Reading
...near the Nepal earthquake epicenter West Virginia's continuing water crisis [radio 52:36] Institutions need to protect scholars when they publicly engage. Against shoddy popular history Bint Battuta: The Ten Commandments...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The New Inquiry Vol. 52: New Masses
...real -- “to do the emotional work necessary for the Western consumer to be moved, and to have that consumer’s beliefs stroked rather than complicated.” For now, global wage disparities...
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
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,...
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...