TNI REX (1)
...Exist" Big bones are easy to fake. But not everyone has been taken in by the paleontology hoax. Watch and learn. Willie Osterweil, Editor Music Blog: Beat Electric For the...
This Sex Which Is Not Two
...which that clearly wasn’t true, in which culture became woven into the fabric of scientific knowledge. And that was the same thing people were finding in other fields of women’s...
"Imagine What We'll Build for One Another": an Interview with Jules Gill-Peterson
Health justice scholar Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with historian Jules Gill-Peterson about anti-trans policy, eugenics, and the material stakes of desire
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
Antiporn Land
...1960s-style Brutalist office building in South London for the U.K. launch of Stop Porn Culture (SPC), an international feminist antiporn organization of which Dines, a British-born, Boston-based academic, is the...
How to Talk About the Weather
...abnormal weather and that’s how we got Frankenstein. How much do you distinguish culture and history from weather itself? UH: For anybody who’s interested in how people live with nature,...
One or Many Directions
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?
Sunday Reading: October 29, 2023
...art market runs on being a tax incentivized wealth management program, the efforts by those who benefit from that program to assert their political views on culture workers is still...
Real Human Being
...the human features its own aspirations and ways of relating—which, taken together, make up what Wynter calls a culture’s “descriptive statement.” Wynter argues that the West, through imperial expansion and...
For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
The Taste of Earth
...that people from South Asia have been here for 5000 years. I pointed out that culture changes and we cannot make a direct link between what may have happened 5000...
She Mad and She Magic
...diptych. The book interweaves history, cultural narratives and archetypes, popular culture, and the author’s personal anecdotes to tell a story in two parts. Part one offers a picture of the...
An Evening with Gulf Labor @ The New School
...of a publication, The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor. This event features reports by Gulf Labor members Nitasha Dhillon, Mariam Ghani, Amin Husain, Andrew Ross and Gregory Sholette and focuses on...
The State of the Unions
A group of people from various positions and experiences with labor unions and worker movements gathered to discuss the problems and potential of labor organizing today. What follows is an edited version of their conversation.
Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian
For María Lugones
The Silver Lining
In a break from constructing predictive models, Nate Silver crafted an entirely new universe to answer the question “What if Hillary won?” Following a prolonged radio silence, this latest dispatch from Earth 2 explains why we haven’t heard from him since.