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...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
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,...
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...
Human Nature
...believe, is the key to unlocking an epochal crisis in capitalism. The crisis won’t come from nature alone; capitalism won’t end without us. Most of us tend to operate as...
Service-Animal Liberation
Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation
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...
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...
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
Language Under House Arrest
Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity
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...
Killer Mag
...The publishing and design communities now know that a printed magazine can not only be used to kill at will, but as a particularly efficient tool for political assassinations....
Econospeak
...and corporations doing, if not constantly “re-establishing themselves” as “market players?” These mantras have been the refrain of HR manuals for decades, but their crossover into pop culture has been...
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, July 25, 2014
...machine age—we are close to concluding the second one—we are moving into the third one. And there is probably no fourth one. No shit. They're gonna kill us all....