By Heather Ann Thompson There are arguably few contemporary issues—indeed contemporary crises—that call for a serious discussion of the power of theory versus the imperative of praxis than the current state of this nation’s apparatus of criminalization, confinement and control… Continue Reading
By Amy Allen Originally published in Constellations
Benner, Katie and Shaila Dewan. “Alabama’s Gruesome Prisons: Report Finds Rape and Murder at All Hours.” April 3, 2019. New York Times. Brown, Wendy. “Neoliberalism’s Frankenstein: Authoritarian Freedom in Twenty-First Century “Democracies”. Critical Times. “#Cut50” cut50.org Davis, Angela. Are Prisons Obsolete?… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2016. (online here) El-Ariss, Tarek. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandal: Arab Culture in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press, 2019. (Introduction here) (Chapter 1 here)
By Robin Celikates The time of the so-called movements of the squares seems to be long gone. What in retrospect looks like a series of fleeting moments of collective enthusiasm and radical hope associated with Tahrir Square, Gezi Park, Hong… Continue Reading
By McKenzie Wark Published in Public Seminar Judith Butler‘s Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard, 2015) is a series of occasional pieces which, taken together, show both the extraordinary range of her thought, and perhaps also some of its… Continue Reading
By Joshua Clover Given the capacious scope of this text, I want to limit my remarks to what are for me its two core questions, one asked, one unasked. By unasked, I do not mean the usual suggestion that the… Continue Reading