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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Examinations
Essays & Analysis, Interviews & Panels, People’s History – analytical, historical, theoretical, cerebral, literal, somewhat more composed approaches to truth-telling.
“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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“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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Dreaming With Our Hands
In the sudden absence of basic supplies, people have found the means of survival in each other, and in the resources and land at their disposal.
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Replacing the Imperialist Fairy Tale
We must understand how processes of imperialism and racial capitalism work, but also how people have fought back. These resistance struggles connect us to people from other countries.
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Russia’s Working Poor
“I hear the call to be a patriot from every radio, TV set, and kitchen appliance. What are you going on about, guys? I have been humiliated my entire life, paid crumbs for a difficult job.”
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“We are taking back our dignity!”
On December 19, protests against the KRG erupted in Suleimaniya and surrounding towns. But the strategy of the demonstrators as well as the reaction of the authorities has everyone at a bit of a loss.
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