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    Jan 3

    We are thrilled to announce that our new issue, ON ANGER, has gone to press! 🙌 Featuring Judith Butler Martha Nussbaum, + more! Preorder now:

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    Jan 30

    Centreville, Illinois,—where it floods with sewage whenever it rains—sits at the intersection of climate catastrophe, structural racism, infrastructural deterioration, and widespread indifference to black suffering.

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    Jan 30

    While I'm not sure where I fall on this issue, the following by Agness Callard is really excellent and worthy of consideration.

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  4. Governments often use financial incentives to encourage good behavior. But what if incentives make us less moral—not more?

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    Jan 31

    "I watched these movies clammy with doom-sweat. Each one was an inoculating dose of my own dread. They made me feverish, but they strengthened my resistance." The cinema of nuclear annihilation:

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  6. What Are Foundations For? A must read to understand the role of in :

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    “It is easy to recognize in Centreville, which is 97 percent black, an outline of the African American past: segregation, rurality, poverty,” writes . h/t This is such an important story. Please read it.

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  8. Exploring the insights of Giorgio Agamben: on "new forms of legality and legitimacy" producing "limitless violence."

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    Jan 31

    Centreville, Illinois, is 97% black and slowly drowning in sewage.

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  10. . on : "How large does a white power movement have to become, and how many people does it have to kill, before we organize to shut it down?"

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    Jan 29

    Only a few days until THE TRIUMPH OF DOUBT officially publishes! 📚 SCIENCE FOR SALE

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  12. Conversations about technology are almost always conversations about history—the trajectory of modernity.

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  13. Islands of washer women, working free, fucked in all matters civic, yet favored by the gods, float on foot, having felled the house that bound them.

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  14. The Mennonite denomination of is best known for the principle of Christian pacifism. But does it also have a connection to white supremacy?

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    Jan 31

    “Centreville looks like the future—a future unfolding at the confluence of climate catastrophe, structural racism, infrastructural deterioration, and widespread indifference to black suffering”

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  16. "You cannot imagine that we could simply have socialism in New York City and nowhere else. We’ve got to start thinking about all of the international relations and international divisions of labor and the like." — David Harvey

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    Jan 31

    “The War on Terror did not spring fully formed only in response to the atrocity of 9/11. We should understand it instead as an escalation of U.S. global power since the end of the Cold War.”

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  18. It's time to rethink the concept of the 'inner city.'

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    Jan 30

    Spent 10 wks here this summer w/ 4 incredible undergrads. Came 2 know & love these folks. Stories of ppl & the environment we often choose not 2 see. Here, it's not abt "green" this/"sustainable" that. It's abt survival/dignity/the right 2 grow old & raise healthy, whole families

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  20. Antigone and her blue-uniformed corpse. Come dawn, and carrion, Creon crawls North. You are bastard and brother both, pestilential Polyneices. New poems from K. Avvirin Gray, a semi-finalist in our annual poetry competition:

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    Jan 31

    The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight—the same position it held in 1953, when the United States and USSR detonated their first hydrogen bombs. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?

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