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...
Service-Animal Liberation
Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation
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...
"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...
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...
Vol. 68 Editors' Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
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.
Bookin' It
...Schuster in 2015. Writing a book has been a longtime goal of mine, and writing this book—a comprehensive "where are we now?" survey of women (and men!) and beauty culture...
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...
Classics
...bourgeois society is war. Those who want to approach the knowledge held in the academy must also internalize its mechanisms. Some go on to help it reproduce itself, as teachers....
The Anger of the Sick
The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.
Ill-Starred Lives
...elephant obeyed. The gunsmith meanwhile raised a carbine to his shoulder, took aim and fired. The explosive steel-tip bullet it discharged struck home, but it did not kill Castor. Blood...
Some Thoughts on Fruitvale Station, and No Angel
...they have killed, after all, which means it is (perversely) respect for the value of life that allows us to take life without moral penalty. A policeman can kill someone...
None of You
...once observed, bourgeois reformers never solve the problems created by capitalism, because they cannot address the root causes; since you can’t just kill the poor, the next best thing is...