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...
Political Vernaculars: Freedom and Love
...around it, teachers could encourage students to write essays and hold debates around it, mainstream media could be encouraged to discuss it. The plan was to saturate as many spaces...
Language Under House Arrest
Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity
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...
Plague Existentialism
A Tentative COVID-19 Self-Quarantine Reading List
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...
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...
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,...
Nightmares of 1965
...The years my mother was nine and ten, anywhere from 500,000 to more than a million people, suspected and actual Indonesian Communist Party members, intellectuals, artists, ethnic Chinese, labor and...
Kenya's Security Act: Refugees
...compelled to leave his place of habitual residence in order to seek refuge in another place outside his country of origin or nationality. Background Kenya is signatory to the UN...
Sunday Reading
...with the Y-axis Hunting as an Indigenous Right MRA Dilbert Zack Fair: Jim Cornette's Islamophobic views should have no place in wrestling Battle for Boyle Heights' Last Japanese Retirement Home...
The Native Struggle
The Red Nation's manifesto for Indigenous liberation in the 21st century
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...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
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...