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Author: James Pogue

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Against Virtuosity
February 12, 2020
Recently, idling away an especially rainy Saturday in January, I found myself sinking a solid six hours into Sony Interactive Entertainment’s 2018 blockbuster game God of War: a stupid-violent farrago of Greek and Norse mythology notable for employing a fixed, ...

Charity Believeth All Things
February 03, 2020
Last month, Semiotext(e) reissued Gary Indiana’s Depraved Indifference, originally published in 2001. Here is A.S. Hamrah’s introduction to the novel. We live in a time of exceptional, unprecedented grift, so much so that our era is turning the history of the United ...

Class Carpetbagger
February 03, 2020
Pete Buttigieg’s comedy of class-signaling errors is a great sign for the socialist movement.

The Sad Clowns of Dating
January 20, 2020
In DESIGNS FOR LIVING, columnist Marlowe Granados dispenses sound advice in a noisy world. Send your rants and pleas to [email protected] for Marlowe’s consideration.   Sweet, sweet, agony Aunt Marlowe: I exited a long-term relationship and have missed the cultural ...

Stateless and Hyperlegalized
January 03, 2020
On December 11, 2019, the parliament of India voted overwhelmingly to introduce a religious qualification for citizenship. The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) offers all undocumented migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan a route to naturalization, provided ...

This Holiday Season, Thank a Janitor
December 30, 2019
We’ve made it through the Winter Solstice, and across the United States people are celebrating the end of another laborious trip ’round the sun. The end of December is traditionally a time for warmth, good cheer, and—for many of us—boozy office parties. The chance to let ...

A Work in Progress
December 27, 2019
Last month Chesa Boudin, a thirty-nine-year-old public defender, narrowly won an election to become the next district attorney of San Francisco. Boudin ran as a progressive outsider, promising to overhaul a criminal justice system that has locked up too many black and brown ...

Fresh Hell
December 20, 2019
Making Crime Legal Again A court has ruled that MI5’s policy of allowing agents and informants to perpetrate serious crimes (as long as it’s, you know, for totally cool spy reasons) is completely legal.   But, Do You Have the Meats? Earlier this week, a Missouri ...