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  • Editorial Note 0

    Introduction to Issue #5

    We’re back, right on schedule, thanks to the foraging skills of associate editor Bruce Robbins, who found most of the authors who follow. We open with my “interview” ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
  • Interview 0

    Interview with Ross Posnock on his new book, Renunciation

    By JAMES LIVINGSTON James Livingston: You write about renunciation as an act in itself–not as abstention from the world but as a “creative” gesture that pleads for “intimacy.” ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
  • Book Review 0

    Snark, Quirk, Sneer, Smirk

    By BEN PARKER Review of Lee Konstantinou’s Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (Harvard University Press, 2016). In his essay “Inauguration Day, January 2001,” Jonathan Franzen recounts attending a political ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
  • Book Review 0

    Is Revolution Tragic?

    By GABRIELLE DaCOSTA Review of Jeremy Matthew Glick’s The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution (New York University Press, 2016) Jeremy Matthew Glick’s The Black Radical ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
  • Essay 0

    On Sabotage

    By R.H. LOSSIN I am not going to attempt to justify sabotage on any moral ground. If the workers consider that sabotage is necessary, that in itself makes sabotage moral. ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
  • Essay 0

    Beyond Prometheanism: Green Technology in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy

    By PHILLIP R. POLEFRONE Almost a thousand people stand on Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in our solar system, and watch as an ice asteroid leaves a gash in the ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
  • Essay 0

    Up on the Roof

    By COREY ROBIN Every week in synagogue, as we return the Torah to the ark, we sing a prayer that concludes, “Chadesh Yameynu K’Kedem.” The line has been ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
  • Essay 0

    Marching for Food Justice

    By MARGARET GRAY Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on May 21, 2016 with “Justice for Farmworkers” banners, the 200 marchers caught a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty and her ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
  • Essay 0

    Love Letters to Zionists: A podcast based on love letters from Jewish anti-Zionists to a beloved Zionist in their life

    By TAMMY KREMER Long before becoming an anti-Zionist artist, I remember running around the synagogue in my flower print dress as a young girl waving the Israeli flag; ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
  • Essay 0

    Looking at Atrocities with John Berger

    By BRUCE ROBBINS I use the word “atrocity” to signify an act of cruelty judged to be extreme or outrageous because it is collective, unnecessary, and/or indiscriminate. John ...

    On June 27, 2016 / By wpadmin
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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