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A Worldmaking Plant
Following the agave trade exposes the roots of solidarity across empires.
The Future Before Us
Fundamental change has eluded movements that flourished in Ferguson. But their promise is still unfolding.
Can AI Break Out of Panglossian Neoliberalism?
What Big Tech has done to our institutional and infrastructural imagination.
Prison Reform’s Shell Game
Hard-won legislation meant to limit or end solitary confinement has run up against the power of correctional systems to neutralize change.
For a Solidarity State
The state structures society. It can make us more prone to care for one another.
Inside Project 2025
Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.
Black Planet
“There is no plot; it’s just Black people living their lives with other Black people on their own planet.”
Rule by Militia
Governments wracked by debt have found militias an efficient way of managing restive populations.
Post Scripts
My dead mother called me to say she knew she killed me a long time ago but look how well I’m doing now.
Leaving the Party
Death was all around him. Maybe you know what this is like, hearing music overlaid with rain. They stop competing after a while.
Climate, State, and Utopia
The defeat of fossil fuel interests is the first step to social justice.
Leadership and Liberation: An Exchange
Jodi Dean responds to Ayça Çubukçu’s “Many Speak for Palestine.”
Two Poems
Don’t stuff your fingers
in your ears or count the Pentecost.
Don’t ask if that grammar has a rosary
or recipe written in cornrows on her head.
Democracy Was a Decolonial Project
For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.
The Future of Neurodiversity
The movement has made important progress, but focusing on rights and representation leaves too many behind.
UCLA’s Unholy Alliance
House Republicans accuse student protesters of vicious anti-Semitism, but it is administrators who are courting violence.
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