Guadagnino’s “Queer” as Addict Cinema
When it comes to the literature of addiction, Burroughs stands as one of the most controversial and upsetting of its figures.
The Great Jaurès
Jean Jaurès was killed because his leadership, politics, and courage posed too great a threat to the powers of this world.
Eugenic Austerity
The social war on the disabled has been waged for centuries, and it is ultimately a war on the body itself—on all of us.
(Mis)understanding the Right
A resetting is needed, one that draws our collective attention to networks, media, and instantaneous communication instead of regressive depictions of the great unwashed.
Our Goal
We the people of Earth are handed an immense task: the liberation of all—or, in other words, the care for the common good of all that live and breathe together.
Communism Lives In The France Unbowed
We are among those who believe that capitalism is not an insurmountable end. Our time is not doomed, it is uncertain.
Choosing to be Palestinian
Said was the very antithesis of ramshackle sentiment–but if there are living roots to naive dreaming, to love and morality as modes of political engagement, Said drew water from them just as well.
The Labour of Artificial Intelligence
The autonomy of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is a bourgeois mystification.
Meloni’s Repressive 1660 Project
Meloni’s government is on the verge of criminalizing political dissent in Italy.
Erasing the Pregnant
The pregnant must be recognized as selves, rather than being reduced to bare biological life and stripped of subjectivity.
Citizen Marx
Marx’s critique reminds us that socialists have a legacy of freedom waiting to be reclaimed.
An Honest Ghost
The cinema of homo economicus ends where it began: in a hell of our own making.