The Art of Propaganda Hannah Gold Gran Fury produced some of ACT UP’s most iconic images. Were they art?
Strangers in our Midst John Washington How Western governments debar and criminalize populations from countries they have invaded and exploited.
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Poems From Palestine The Man and His Girlfriend Who Argued All of Last Night and Now Stand at a Pharmacy in R City to Buy Medication for Headaches Dalia Taha
The Automation Myth Clinton Williamson To what degree can we blame automation for deindustrialization and class decomposition?
Silver Screen Sphinxes Christina Newland How Greta Garbo and Buster Keaton invented celebrity privacy.
Silver Screen Sphinxes Christina Newland How Greta Garbo and Buster Keaton invented celebrity privacy.
Morning Dan Lau There is a neighbor drying the dishes in a wire rack each plate filed under another prong. Open. Filled. Open. Vacancy. In the next apartment, a pile of shells. The spirals exercised under the pressures of sand returns the hollow to a net of light. Above, each tarred shingle provides an understanding. Starlings drag their bodies through the sky and back again. Scatter then fall, collect like blood on the back of a razor thin telephone wire. Jars and empty brown bottles flood the space below the kitchen table. Within this, concealed the idea of drowning. Kiss the sea. We’ve created a body of permanent ice. In another room, shards of apples fill a metal bowl. Water is water because we can drink it.
Fault (Catallus 102) Mike Lala Leaks drip out of lips that part, from a copse where secrets rot, churning to a knot that needs untying by a friend. Split a digraph: Scantly ape the palm one hides to shake, and cup the eyes, obstruct the mouth, and plug the ear the weaker party rambled.