Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Sunday Reading
...employ as many private security guards as high school teachers." Nice unions finish last "[P]ower doesn’t come from friendly campaigns and negotiating with management." The testing ground for the new...
Introduction
...three things of each piece I commissioned for this supplement. That it be dangerous. That it be necessary. That it be true. I wanted to create a platform for transgressive...
"Healthy" Nationalism?
...American flags were in fashion, I asked my politics teacher why we (Germans) weren’t allowed to wear our own flag. He said there was a time when we were allowed...
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
Love, Mystery, and Irrationality
...“Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to gain Cathy, but he would never think of saying that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible. He would...
1983 - 1962
...from the back of slave-drawn carts, “letting everything else drop” meant that the crew had to kill an escaped stunt tiger to keep it from eating them, because cost-cutting kept...
Consent
...To do the verb to kill. Technically it’s the only time the game leaves you no recourse but to do it, but the act of pressing that button feels like...
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
...is credited with saying “Kill the Indian and save the man,” a rationale that would come to define attempted genocide disguised as assimilation. While most assume these schools closed in...
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...
Fully Operational
...like something Will Smith would kill in a movie. It is mirrored, angular, black, and malevolently futuristic. Critics ranging from the New York Times to parents of NYU students, as...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 64: Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.
Vol. 18 Editors' Note: Family Planning
...of its infant members is to kill it.” Thus wrote Margaret Sanger, the mother of birth control and founder of Planned Parenthood, in a 1922 pamphlet entitled “The Woman Rebel.”...
Fan Fiction
...engage culture from within. Our authors use fiction to explode boundaries. The criticism is coming from inside the house. In 1969, three female students at Freie Universität in Berlin disturbed...
Les Saignantes @ The Morbid Anatomy Museum
...and nightlife is dominated by the exclusive wakes of Very Important People. When two young women, Majolie and Chouchou, kill a senior politician, they make a plan to wrest power...
Superman/Everyman
...and a teacher of self-seeking and individual right living. Kaufmann’s translations of Nietzsche’s major works, complete with their didactic footnoting, are still ubiquitous in affordable paperback editions in America today,...