O Vangelo, Africa
AbdouMaliq Simone
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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