Paradise Lost
The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams
Plague Existentialism
A Tentative COVID-19 Self-Quarantine Reading List
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...
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...
Language Under House Arrest
Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity
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,...
The Native Struggle
The Red Nation's manifesto for Indigenous liberation in the 21st century
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...
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
Black Riot
The difference between riots and protests has more to do with who and where than what
Preferential Immunity
...first reaction upon hearing the Ebola news was casual curiosity. It was only upon a doctor friend impressing Ebola’s “it will kill you” nature upon me did I even consider...
personal crusade against alzheimer’s
...douglas huebler, duration piece #31, boston, 1974: one silly concept (kill them all), roughly shooting time. although the huebler piece --and onofre's evenly-- doesn't immerse me into nostalgia, powerlessness, is...
Policing the Troubles
...Direct Action Against Drugs (ostensibly set up to rid the community of drug dealers; in practice a pretense for killing them) and you have a veneer of community policing that,...
The Plague Years
...is more virus than video and whether it’s dangerous in some way, though this kind of question can be addressed with variations on familiar critiques of mass culture. But a...
That sisterhood. In that one life. Destroy one another.
...they were "ready for trial." except for procedural reasons the case was dismissed, and now the traffickers were plotting to kill him. so when an airplane crashed near buffalo, the...