Unnamed and Unsurveilled
February 13, 2020
Craigslist is the last holdout of a vanishing internet ethos.
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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, ...
To the Bitter End
February 11, 2020
Notes on Michael Bennet’s zombie campaign.
Is Patriarchy Too Big to Fail?
February 11, 2020
On the trials of Trump and Weinstein.
Lying in State
How Trump misrepresents his worker-friendly bona fides.
Fresh Hell
February 07, 2020
I Pretend I Do Not See It
Money Is an Iron: Oscar Movies, 2020
February 07, 2020
Hollywood Anglophilia reached new heights in 2019 and The Two Popes is Exhibit A.
Pod Save Antarctica
February 06, 2020
In Weather, Jenny Offill tackles the Anthropocene.
So Long, Parchment Barriers
Constitutional preening was never going to stop Donald Trump.
Law and Disorder
February 05, 2020
Increasingly, immigration officers are accountable to no one.
Impossible Contradictions
When capitalism and nativism find themselves at a crossroads
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 ...