Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
A three-way essay on biopunk, futurism, and rejecting genetic determinism
Sick City, Soaked Lens
When even the camera itself can’t be excused for its complicity.
No SWAT Zone
Resisting police militarization under Trump
Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter
By generating automated targeted ads, “The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible
Everything in Its Place
To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
Know Your Rights
We limit our resistance to fascism by relying on liberal conceptions of human rights.
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
You Can Encrypt Your Face
Facial recognition technology turns your face into code that can be archived and traded among strange and suspect parties. Its growing sophistication in the hands…
Editors’ Note, Vol. 61: Conspiracy
Just because they’re after you, doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.
You Probably Think This Bot Is About You
When it comes to machines, paranoid assumptions about the world are mutually reinforcing: The New Inquiry’s Conspiracy Bot condenses this recursive symbiosis.
Eugenics: Policing Everything
By Joy L. Rankin
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
By Christopher Martiniano
Conceiving the Kingdom
...now carries the weight of what hadn’t yet happened, but now seems like it always would have...
Dispensing God’s Care
Left critiques of the AHCA or Trump’s budget often miss the unique religious goals they serve.
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
Dixie Be Damned, But Damn Everything Too
An Interview with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley.