Political Education for Everyday Life
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Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life seeks to revitalize progressive politics. We challenge progressive dogma by encouraging readers to think about the political dimension to all aspects of everyday life. We seek to broaden the audience for leftist and progressive writing through a commitment to accessibility and contemporary relevance. more »
featured articlesRustbelt Irony: Suffering Art, Cars, and Cold in Detroit
Bye Bye, Facebook
The University of the Commons: a New Progressive Alternative in San Francisco
The Speciousness of Origin: Notes from Palermo
National Psychoanalysis The author considers the present political situation as a psychomachia, a drama in which what any of the dramatis personae say or any of the bi-partisan accords they enact do no more than mask the “Unthought” that conceals the hidden heart of the matter. The Neoliberal/Right-wing Psyche
The Liberal Psyche: Session One
The Liberal Psyche: Session Two
The Liberal Psyche: Session Three
Cyber-liberty, Democracy and the Arab Psyche
Word of Click: Social Networking and the Arab Spring Revolutions
reviewsmore »Mike Kelley at PS1: Dark Humor Unseats All Rules and Restraints
Thin Gruel with Bison: Ann Arbor Folk Music Forty Years Ago
Our Brains, Our Pocketbooks: A Review of Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain
"Falling in Love Is Such an Easy Thing to Do": The Secret Life of the American Teenager’s Confusing Rhetoric on Sexual Ethics and Consequences
Miss Education: Thank You, Lauryn Hill
Music Books on an Austere Media Diet: Bliss and I WANT MY MTV
The Stooges' Ready to Die
KISS MONSTER
Problems of the History Painter: Niagara, Detroit and "War Paint"
Jung, Clarke, Kubrick: Dark Monoliths, Stone Temples
Robots All: A Letter to Kurt Vonnegut on the Anniversary of Breakfast of Champions
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new issue (2013)Bad Subjects Issue #85: Is Kennedy Dead?
November 2013 will undoubtedly see much ink and pixel devoted to November 22nd, 1963, the day US President John F. Kennedy was shot. This issue of Bad Subjects: Political Education in Everyday Life examines the imagery of his enduring legacy, and especially his assassination fifty years ago. read » recent issueBad Subjects Issue #84: Crafts
Craft is political. Karl Marx wrote that colonial rule in India destroyed local craft traditions “through the brutal interference of the British tax-gatherer and the British soldier.” Wanda Telakoska, promoter of traditional Polish arts and crafts, believed “beauty is for everyday and for everybody", but despite directing Poland's Bureau for Supervision of Production Aesthetics, her designs were ignored by penny-pinching factories. read » editorialsmore »REHABILITATION and Humanar® Official correspondence, and a modest proposal.
The Bad Professor's Beltway Decoder: A Lexicon of Washington Media
Human Being & Mendicants: Two Poems Caution: The Free Exchange of Ideas: Our New Normal
Got a TV Eye on Me: Video, State Surveillance, and Resistance
Prison for Peace Some are arrested, go to trial, and leave family and community for jail and prison, all in the cause of peace. read » George Zimmerman: Out Looking for Trouble
"Maggie, Maggie, Maggie,..."
Who Gives a Cluck What Dan Cathy Thinks? On July 16, 2012, Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A confirmed that his company is decidedly anti-gay marriage. The chain's conservative politics have long been suspected; Chick-fil-A is notoriously Christian. If you want a banana shake on a Sunday, you're out of luck. look » Costumed for Life and Love: San Francisco LGBT Freedom Day 2012 
The City marched, danced and celebrated in its finery on Sunday, June 24th. look » God Save My Mum: A Not So Warm and Fuzzy Take on the Queen of England's Jubilee 
All the love and adulation heaped upon her should have been heaped upon my Mum, and other widows and veterans of Her Majesty's Armed Forces, once shipped off to obscure Christmas Island. read » It's Springtime!
Oakland (after William Blake) 
I wander down each corporate street,/There where the corporate cop cars go... read »
Predator Drones, Reaper Drones, and Total Disconnect by Rosalie Riegle
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Reflect on the past year of culture in the major city in Michigan, a site of conflicting, or perhaps complementary, irony and sincerity.
Facebook is sharing all my data with the US government. Private companies, and governments like Egypt, can get my Facebook data too. Forget that.
People were excited at the promise of starting a really great project for higher learning, and to be able to teach what we wanted, as we wanted, without money and profit motives and administrative harnessing to get in our way.
On a visit to our sewn and preserved fellow species in a Palermo natural history museum, the author ponders our inveterate need to diminish and hold out of sight our connectedness in the mesh of all life and the invalidities of our politics and presumptions resulting from our rigorously maintained blindness.
In this first "diagnosis," the author examines the neoliberal psyche.
Natoli's last examination of the American cultural psychic drama, or psychomachia, focuses on a repressed, suppressed and devilized leftist ideology.
In the Arab world the freedom to converse and not the mere googling of information is what can trigger political change and social networks make this possible.
Social networking's political value in the U.S. may not exceed its distracting/seductive values but such has not been the case with the Arab Spring Revolutions.
Kelley challenges cultural politics and the status quo directly, gender and identity within self and object relations, artistic techniques and forms. Recontextualizing meaning through the alterations of familiar, mundane low-brow imagery and ideas, he unseats social constructions.
The death of Pete Seeger (1919-2014) prompts thoughts about folk music in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1970-73.
In his book Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain, Gary Olson explores the connections between biology, empathy, and capitalism.
The Secret Life of the American Teenager ended its five-season run on June 3, 2013. The series often (and awkwardly) walked the line between liberal and stodgy, realistic and unrealistic.
This album meant everything to me when it came out.
Two books shed light on my own peculiar and prejudicial diet of media, both print and televised.
Punk rock is youth and rebellion, and old punks don’t die.
The rock gods, in blue jeans and black sport jackets, slipped into a back room where they could press the flesh with fans.
Elegant women in Niagara's "War Paint" exhibit make the conflagration seventy years ago into the best of fun.
Motifs and coincidences involve the lives and work of the psychologist, the writer and the filmmaker.
Your book gives the impression, not only that most humans act like machines, but that the universe itself is like a machine.
Edited by Mike Mosher
markets, the: casinos for the rich that we subsidize.
The task of reaching young minds already "friending" and "unfriending" words in line with powerful overriding societal priorities, plus the frustration of discovering that all attempts at "unpackaging" those priorities lead to the dead end of a student's personal opinion that overrides even Socrates's pedagogy, is a formidable task, but one not deterred by disingenuous notions of the "free exchange of ideas."
It's the cameras around us, and the ones in our pockets, and the software and servers that monitor our texts and clicks, that make, and record, history in 2013.
The insidious racism in this country is at the case's heart.
The news came on Monday, April 8th that Margaret Thatcher was dead.
Bad Subject Stephen Perkins, blogging from Cairo, posts 
At a national Catholic Worker gathering, activists sat down in front of an entrance to Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada.
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