Tag
Capitalism
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Can the River Debate the Suburb?
Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the unborn. Legally, we can devise new ways for nature to be legally represented within our human world.
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Asset Managers (Against) Society
A new book shows that asset manager ownership exacerbates the risks that they socialize—harming, rather than benefitting, users and governments.
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Public Thinker: Infrastructure Tells Us That We Need One Another
“Seeing infrastructural systems for what they are requires us to understand them as the product of massive collective investment and to reflect on the value of that.”
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Philanthropy’s Power Brokers
An in-depth reckoning with the Gates Foundation as a discrete actor is long overdue.
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Who Benefits from a “War on Corruption”?
Can anticorruption as a social movement or rhetorical strategy be a meaningful part of counterhegemonic resistance to such regimes?
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Is the World Enough?
Is our relation to the earth mainly a story of scarcity, of insatiable wants curbed by a finite planet?
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In Defense of Imagination
West Virginia University’s unprecedented cuts to its liberal arts programs sells the public a university tethered to market demands at the expense of imaginative expansion and intellectual curiosity.
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The Revolution Will Be Caring
What makes something mutual aid or collective care and not capitalist charity?
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Surfing; Or How to Consume a Beach
The keys to surfing—wetsuits, surf forecasting, and surfboard manufacturing—emerged from Southern California’s military-industrial complex.
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A #MeToo Novel That Must Be Read #WithYou
A South Korean novel critiques violent misogyny within a literature department. Remarkably, it does so by addressing the reader directly.
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There Is No Such Thing as a Good Book: On “The Art of Libromancy”
“I do not think bookselling is an art. I think it is a job.”
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South Africa: Living in a Future Way Ahead of Our Time
“The human capacity for oxymoronic optimism will literally take your breath away if you’re among the millions living downwind from the dumps.”
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Oil and Injury in Los Angeles
The city’s ports may be physically located in the imperial core—inside the barricades of the USA—but their tendrils span the globe.
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The Frankfurt Book Fair and Its Cupboards
“In order to understand the multi-dimensionality of the global book industry, we urgently need to move beyond standard methods alone.”
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Cristina Rivera Garza: “the traces that shelter us”
One novelist spotlights an object, feeling, or sensation where the relay between past and present, or present and future, becomes visible.
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Publishers and Scholars, Unite!
Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?
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Five Books on Labor and Ecology
Our scorching planetary age results from the conjoined forces of colonial extractivism, fossil capitalism, and postcolonial developmentalism.
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Who Picks the Next Kings of Tech?
“I’m looking for [companies] where, you know, at the end of it, there’s some big payoff… You know, would that excite me?”
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What Really Makes Cities Global?
To ask what kind of city Los Angeles is today is, also, to wonder what kind of city it could be tomorrow.
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Nostalgia’s Empire: A Conversation with Grafton Tanner and Johny Pitts
Nostalgia is both a threat and a refuge.
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Neoliberal Keywords: Creative, Passionate, Confident
When did we all become so empowered, passionate, and self-enterprising?
