Canceled Message (Part Three)
...examples, like Japanese classical artists, who would burn their archives, as artists. Rather than accumulate, they were interested in affluence, but not abundance. And I think there’s a difference between...
The Untrustworthy Reader
...a teaching hospital, is described (the bones of the chicken served are, “even in the half-light ... picked clean”). “As always in war,” Adler notes, “unless one happens to be...
Warning
...mobilizing the specter of white-supremacist violence has been so successful for the partisans of order, as if poking a stick in the scabs of an old wound. In 2015, hot...
Eugenics: Policing Everything
...University of North Carolina Press, 2005). Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America , paperback ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015)....
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...
Language Under House Arrest
Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity
Scents of an Ending
...of July in 2015. When the day came, the residents of Naameh threatened direct action; they vowed to obstruct the entry of garbage trucks into their town using any necessary...
Plague Existentialism
A Tentative COVID-19 Self-Quarantine Reading List
Paradise Lost
The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams
Postcard from the Internet
...chance in an article on national Iranian football teams—is my grandfather. Caption: "Azad Football Team, 1949." Image source: Akhbar-Rooz, "Iranian Football, Indebted to the Golden Land of Khuzestan," 2015....
Vol. 68 Editors' Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
Time Is a Killer
...looks like she’s in her eighties. Look how wise she is, he speculates. Women, as carriers of culture, develop wrinkles that tell fortunes. Wise old creatures… Myrtle as Myrtle will...
Frequently Asked Questions
...and offer a real editing process and a space for reflection and critique on issues of race, gender, labor, family, love, music, sickness, sexuality, faith, trash, money, everything. All this...