The Pentagon is the world's largest office building. All its energy needs are met by the advanced solar panels on its huge flat roof surfaces. Its six and a half [...]
The most recent chapter of Civilizational pandemic is but a heightened condition of the normal for those already targeted by anti-Black, racial-colonial domestic war. While Civilization’s managers and entitled inhabitants [...]
The optimization of life has always depended on the disposability of life. Specifically, the biopolitical order of modern nation-states is inextricable from the necropolitical order determinative of indigenous and black [...]
The capacities to smile and laugh are competencies that we all have, but more than ever before arethreatened by the introduction of masks as interface for relatively safe interactions during [...]
This year it's my turn to speak.While much has changed since the First Great Confinement, the ritual of celebrating recurrences still retains all its importance. I am particularly honored [...]
My Dear Daughter, Today you came home from school and asked me what a “tank” was. It is 2035, so you don’t remember that in 2020 imperial powers used the [...]
Can we imagine a world in which things like public health, safe housing, clean water, nourishing food, sustainable environmental practices, justice, harm reduction, equity, and mutual care top the list [...]
“You’ve got mail,” my husband said to me, handing me a small envelope. “It’s from the monastery,” he continued. “This can’t be good,” I thought out loud. In 2017-2018, I [...]
Lawnmowers hum outside. The air smells of cut grass and fertilizer. I sit at the kitchen table in my apartment in central Illinois, trying to focus on the article I [...]
The categories of perception that agents apply to the social world are the product of a prior state of the world. When structures are modified, even slightly, the structural hysteresis [...]
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