Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
Print on Demand
...with the newness of their archive, especially compared to some of the material they encountered in their research. That weekend, we handled 18th century Islamic manuscripts and 20th century leftist...
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,...
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...
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...
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;...
Service-Animal Liberation
Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation
Autonomy in Kurdistan
...years, such as liberation in culture, art, gender relations, a new democratic perspective, organization of all sections of society on the basis of politics, civil society, and gender. We saw...
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...
Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
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...
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...
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...