Sorry, Ladies: No World Hair Cup for Women
...Cup in 2015? It would make sense, in some ways. Internationally speaking, women’s soccer still lags behind men’s in popularity and professional participation, but in the United States, that wasn’t...
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)....
Victory and Its Consequences (Part II)
...to create a desirable future for the ZAD post-cancellation.10 We could name some other desirable futures: fighting against land grabs by industrial agriculture; self-built housing that frees itself from urban...
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...
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....
Sunday Reading
...teachers' strike adds power to nationwide movements against inequality and racism Clock is ticking on the destruction of Chicago police misconduct files The real story of Sandra Bland "You know...
Print on Demand
...different expectations of an installation like The Incidental Insurgents than of a state archive, and its relationship to capital also differs greatly: Basel and Ruanne won both the 2015 Sharjah...
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...