By Sylvia Faichney | There are few practices that display the visual shift from modernism to postmodernism as succinctly as… Read more Advertising Housework: Labor and the Promotion of Pleasure in 1970s Domestic Interiors
De-Training
This summer, Blind Field’s new editor Sophie rode coach class all the way to camp. As her train left Penn… Read more De-Training
“Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music” – A Review-Essay
By Eugene Brennan | Moments of political defeat are often closely accompanied by widespread and exaggerated claims about the impact… Read more “Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music” – A Review-Essay
On the African Literary Hustle
By Sarah Brouillette | NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 novel We Need New Names follows a gang of kids whose families have been left… Read more On the African Literary Hustle
Two years in…
This month marks Blind Field’s second anniversary as an online journal dedicated to thinking about the politics of culture, and… Read more Two years in…
Abolitionism in the 21st Century: From Communization as the End of Sex, to Revolutionary Transfeminism
By Jules Joanne Gleeson | Gender abolition was a contentious point of discussion among the communization current in the early… Read more Abolitionism in the 21st Century: From Communization as the End of Sex, to Revolutionary Transfeminism
Historicizing White Nostalgia: Race and American Fordism
By Laura Renata Martin | The figure of the white blue collar worker looms large in recent left efforts to… Read more Historicizing White Nostalgia: Race and American Fordism
The Call for Gender Abolition: From Materialist Lesbianism to Gay Communism
By Jules Joanne Gleeson | Here in Vienna, there are two permanent feminist centres: the Frauen Zentrum (Womens’ Centre), and… Read more The Call for Gender Abolition: From Materialist Lesbianism to Gay Communism
Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı
By Kenan Behzat Sharpe | “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” – James Joyce, Finnegan’s… Read more Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı
Interview with Zaynê Akyol on her film Gulîstan Land of Roses
By Astra Remington| Posters for Zaynê Akyol’s documentary film Gulîstan, Land of Roses—depicting a PKK woman fighter’s profile against a… Read more Interview with Zaynê Akyol on her film Gulîstan Land of Roses
