by Ken Ehrlich “Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.” Aimé Cesaire A grainy… Read more Networks, Infrastructures, Logistics: Mapping Capitalist Systems in Words and Pictures
Kidnappers: Social reproduction, crime, and gender in Nénette et Boni and Shoplifters
by Alva Gotby Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2018 film Shoplifters is less about shoplifting and more about what it means to adopt… Read more Kidnappers: Social reproduction, crime, and gender in Nénette et Boni and Shoplifters
Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden
by Johanna Isaacson In what follows I try to make sense of the life and work of Lizzie Borden, director… Read more Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden
RAVE-ACCELERATE-DIE
by Noah Brehmer | A few years back something like a rave–or what was anyways called one–unfolded under the Baltica-highway in… Read more RAVE-ACCELERATE-DIE
with binyavanga
Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author of short stories and essays, an LGBT activist, and a champion of African literary… Read more with binyavanga
Notes On Childcare
By Alexandra Chenelle 1. I play with a friend’s child while they watch basketball. I am pretending that the pink… Read more Notes On Childcare
The Hospital of History: Guy Hocquenghem’s The Amphitheater of the Dead
By Cam Scott | Few figures of the French left are as non-forthcoming in posterity, let alone English translation, as… Read more The Hospital of History: Guy Hocquenghem’s The Amphitheater of the Dead
We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
By Johanna Isaacson | In the age of dying malls and zombie overkill does George Romero’s much discussed Dawn of the… Read more We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Rock ‘n’ Roll Feminist Utopianism in Outer-Space
By Kenan Behzat Sharpe The “new Turkey” seems to have no space for women. Last Friday thousands of people gathered… Read more Rock ‘n’ Roll Feminist Utopianism in Outer-Space
There is, after all, still air to breathe in hell | Part 2
by Noah Brehmer | Social death and the suicideational demand You can read the first part of this essay here.… Read more There is, after all, still air to breathe in hell | Part 2
