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...
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...
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...
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...
Language Under House Arrest
Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity
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...
The Untrustworthy Reader
...thirty-four were killed ... and, as the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders ... put it, of those thirty-four dead blacks ‘several ... were killed by mistake.’ ” There is...
Craven Family Values
...concerns. Artists who abide by them with some degree of competency and visibility will eventually bring about some critical valuation of the works they have produced. Follow the rule about...
Vol. 23 Editors' Note: Shelter
...Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. In Scotland, Cal Flyn sees a revived literary culture intertwined with the pursuit of political independence, with one leading novelist gaining fame when he...
Born to Lose
...the game — a hallucinatory murderer is compelled to kill, and the quick repetition of appearing and dying pushes that hallucination onto the viewer. While it’s often lamented that video...
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...
Sunday Reading
...prison strikes in US history A growing grassroots movement in Mexico is resisting the US-backed drug war "'We’re going to kill all of you,' the [police] officers warned." Aaron Cantú:...
America is Hungry, Let's Eat
...the community, might turn out to innovate the future. After all, who is it that cleared the American frontier of its native detritus, making it possible for us to create...