The communal house that local residents had built, on a barren plot once designated for Jakarta’s latest megamall construction, has a freshly planted fruit orchard that offers fine scenery for [...]
It begins, as it always does, with a lie. By tracking the virus that caused global havoc at the time, its spread could maybe be slowed down. The Tracing App [...]
Abolition is both a world without, and a world with. In Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s words, abolition is “a strategy and a vision for a world without police, prisons, border control and [...]
by Alize Arıcan AES is pleased to share this interview by Alize Arıcan, AES editorial intern, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with Hayal Akarsu, Junior Research Fellow [...]
Conspiracies surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic are not unique or “new” in how they mobilize and rally against government institutions, science, and both “democrats” and “liberals.” In my research about conspiracy [...]
“It is a segmented, immobile, frozen space. Each individual is fixed in his place. And, if he moves, he does so at the risk of his life, contagion or punishment. [...]
Queen Miriam sits with a black axe on either side in an ornate red velvet chair gilded with gold leaf in the fading afternoon sun in the antechamber made in [...]
I. Overheard on Campus History? That lecture verged on science fiction. Man, it’s just bananas how much power corporations used to have over public education. Talk about the free pursuit [...]
As an anthropologist I’m better trained in critique than in fantasy, and so I asked Bassem Abu Gweily, a poet and migrant worker, for inspiration. He wrote: “The first thing [...]
I have been thinking, researching, writing and practicing – to the extent possible – about incompleteness and conviviality for some time. My basic argument is that everything in the world [...]
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