No Mushroom Cloud
A fungus offers a complicated lesson in late-capitalist logistics and survival. A review of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World
Woke Up Dead
The hazy surreality of sleep paralysis mirrors the dysphoria of self-recognition under precarity
Coal Comfort
Understanding capitalism’s use of fossil fuels to control labor puts us in a better position to fight it
The Future Bubble
Capitalism posits a future of endless innovation in products and production processes, but no possible change in the social relations that move them
Needles and the Damage Done
While the Bay Area flourishes, small towns in the interior are stripped for parts.
I Woke Up Like This
The health rave breaks with party culture by harnessing its wasteful expenditure to the goal of productivity.
Communism for Children
Excerpts from the upcoming English translation of Bini Adamczak's Communism for Children, a fable of capitalist dystopia and communist revolution.
Turn Down for What?
In imagining a homogenized future labor force, accelerationism ignores how capital opportunistically sustains difference to survive
Vapor Eyes
E-cigarettes are social consumption, not private vice. They keep us addicted not so much to nicotine as to each other
No Choice but Freedom
Markets enact social control while making it seem to disappear
The Postcapital Economy
China’s command-like economy may be better suited to cope with technologically driven abundance