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Why Political Campaigns Are Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones

A new book, Producing Politics, exposes the hollow and self-serving logic of campaign insiders from across the spectrum

July 27, 2022 • by Micah L. Sifry

A new book, Producing Politics, exposes the hollow and self-serving logic of campaign insiders from across the spectrum....

Sex & Gender

Seeking (and Shaping) Queer Space

With only four lesbian bars left in New York City, where—and how—can Queer community be found?

July 26, 2022 • by Radhika Rajkumar

With only four lesbian bars left in New York City, where—ah how—can Queer community be found?...

Capitalism

Ending Exploitation in the Fashion Industry

Towards a labor-centered notion of sustainability

July 26, 2022 • by Nandita Shivakumar and Aabid Firdausi

Instead of empty commitments to sustainability that at best result in greenwashing, there needs to be urgent structural transformations in the global garment industry. ...

Ending Exploitation in the Fashion Industry

Interviews

Interpretations of the Past

Historian Michael D. Hattem discusses historical memory, reckoning with the creation of “American history”, and his recent book

July 25, 2022 • by Max Pierce and Michael D. Hattem

That put this question in my head: how, and when, did these British colonists, now Americans, stop thinking that the British past was their history? And how did they come to replace it with what we now call “American history”? That question then became the project’s overarching framework: reckoning with ...

Technology

Truth, Damned Truth, and Statistics: A Quiet Mathematical Revolution Reshaping our Algorithmically-Mediated World

An interview with Justin Joque

July 20, 2022 • by Lydia Nobbs and Justin Joque

There’s a shift in statistical approaches from one driven by what we traditionally think of as knowledge—knowing ‘the truth’—to a more economic approach. That shows what's always been the case but admits it in a more clear-eyed way: knowledge production is always tied to political economy. In fact, the ways ...

Truth, Damned Truth, and Statistics: A Quiet Mathematical Revolution Reshaping our Algorithmically-Mediated World

Philosophy

When I Was One-Dimensional

How Herbert Marcuse’s text changed my life

July 20, 2022 • by James Miller

"For their sincere reception," Cavell concludes, some life-altering texts require "the shock of conversion." Reading Marcuse, I had felt that shock, with pleasure. Few experiences are quite as rapturous as the conviction that one has embarked on a splendid new life with the firmest of good convictions: as Plato long ...

Fashion

Fashion Sustainability Isn’t the Only Story—In Fact, It may Do More Harm Than Good

An interview with Fashion Historian Sofi Thanhauser

July 20, 2022 • by AJ Morris and Sofi Thanhauser

The system of clothing that we have now has been created by centuries of colonial violence, and decades of trade agreements between the United States Department of State and the Chinese Communist Party. It's not up to people trying to get a pair of socks to fix those things....

Fashion Sustainability Isn’t the Only Story—In Fact, It may Do More Harm Than Good

Democracy

Donald Trump Must Face Federal Charges

A look back at the Weimar Republic should teach us a lesson about bringing insurrectionists to justice

July 19, 2022 • by Claudia Koonz

Before writing off the theatrics of the GOP as a mere sideshow, we should pause to remember how Adolf Hitler snatched victory from a catastrophic attempted putsch in 1923. ...

Philosophy

Identity Politics and Culture Wars

Judith Butler, Cornel West, and Glenn Greenwald join moderator Simon Critchley in the 2021 Holberg Debate

July 18, 2022 • by Judith Butler, Glenn Greenwald, Simon Critchley and Cornel West

To some, identity-based politics has been embraced as an effective strategy to combat discrimination and marginalization. To others, it may seem that identity politics has resulted in culture wars involving violent conflicts and a destructive exchange of labels. ...

Multi-Verse

Multi-Verse Episode 3. Mikko Harvey: “Let the World Have You”

On cats and bear traps. We hope the animals are not offended.

July 13, 2022 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 3 of Multi-Verse, poet Mikko Harvey reads and discusses his poem “Let the World Have You” with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham. ...

Interviews

Making Poetry Fun and Daring

An interview with award-winning poet Victoria Chang

July 13, 2022 • by Victoria Chang and Nomaris García Rivera

Victoria Chang is a Chinese American poet whose writing explores themes of death and grief. In her new book The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022) Chang explores how we experience grief over time, and how nature experiences it along with us. Informed by the pandemic, the theme of ...

Politics

Brett Kavanaugh’s Right to Privacy

The legal right to privacy is very old. It’s just that privacy used to be an exclusively male privilege.

July 12, 2022 • by Jill Filipovic

All of a sudden, privacy rights matter to the same conservatives who just stripped women of ours—because powerful men are seeing their privacy violated....

Essays

Why Political Campaigns Are Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones

A new book, Producing Politics, exposes the hollow and self-serving logic of campaign insiders from across the spectrum

Seeking (and Shaping) Queer Space

With only four lesbian bars left in New York City, where—and how—can Queer community be found?

Ending Exploitation in the Fashion Industry

Towards a labor-centered notion of sustainability

Interpretations of the Past

Historian Michael D. Hattem discusses historical memory, reckoning with the creation of “American history”, and his recent book

Truth, Damned Truth, and Statistics: A Quiet Mathematical Revolution Reshaping our Algorithmically-Mediated World

An interview with Justin Joque

When I Was One-Dimensional

How Herbert Marcuse’s text changed my life

Fashion Sustainability Isn’t the Only Story—In Fact, It may Do More Harm Than Good

An interview with Fashion Historian Sofi Thanhauser

Donald Trump Must Face Federal Charges

A look back at the Weimar Republic should teach us a lesson about bringing insurrectionists to justice

Identity Politics and Culture Wars

Judith Butler, Cornel West, and Glenn Greenwald join moderator Simon Critchley in the 2021 Holberg Debate

Multi-Verse Episode 3. Mikko Harvey: “Let the World Have You”

On cats and bear traps. We hope the animals are not offended.

Making Poetry Fun and Daring

An interview with award-winning poet Victoria Chang

Brett Kavanaugh’s Right to Privacy

The legal right to privacy is very old. It’s just that privacy used to be an exclusively male privilege.

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