Climate Trauma
There is no way that we can get out of the warming condition or prevent climate breakdown without destroying and terminating things that are dangerous.
Crossing from Idlib to Turkey, Fall 2017
Even once you’ve made it across the border from Syria, you’re still a long way from safety. Turkish border police are hunting migrants all over the border region. And they do what they want with those they catch.
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All Our Liberation: The Arab Uprisings and Palestine
One of the most dangerous implications of the past seven years that will affect Palestinians in the years to come was the normalization of state violence and its use to suppress civilian populations.
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The Anthropology of Death
The Putin regime has a flagrantly necrophiliac tendency. Even under Stalin, there was nothing like this savoring of death.
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“The tools of our liberation became our captors.”
Ought we not at least entertain the possibility of something beyond ideologies, begin the work of thinking anew about the nature of politics, and push back against the troubling tendencies within the liberal order?
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Echoes of COINTELPRO and the Police Murder of Fred Hampton
The FBI links all this together into something called the “black identity extremist movement,” which then gives them the opportunity to surveil whomever they put in that category. There’s no definition of that category, so we have to believe that they’re doing the same thing that they did back then.
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“Disobedient Movement,” Rescues and Repression in the Mediterranean
As always, new revisions to border enforcement make migratory journeys more lengthy, costly, and deadly.
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Cinema Utopia: Syrian Metal Is War
A collection of accounts of Syrian metalheads and their methods of coping and survival, shot in 2013-2014 and smuggled out on a rubber boat journey to Europe.
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“He died because he’s black!”
“We do it because otherwise they won’t leave,” Zurich functionary Mario Fehr (Social-democratic Party) recently explained.
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On Foraging and Freedom
The state is efficient at reproducing the state. The state is not necessarily more efficient at organizing subsistence.
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