Energy researcher Nishikant Sheorey provides this primer on the field of degrowth: what it is, what it is not, and what its critics on the left get wrong. Far from being analogous to “austerity,” degrowth is instead deeply aligned with anti-capitalist values.
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ana contra la totalidad social: cuatro apuntes metodológicos / ana versus the social totality: four methodological sketches
Amid increasing state violence against workers and pueblos originarios in Peru, we present an excerpt from Peruvian poet Valeria Román Marroquín’s collection ANA C. BUENA (La Balanza Editorial, 2021), translated into English for the first time by Noah Mazer.
Read MoreLamentations
Poet Jake Romm’s “Lamentations” grieves the inadequacy of revolutionary poetry while maintaining the necessity of revolution: “A poem,” he writes, “is a failure / To fulfill the promise of poetry.”
Read MoreMinor Deities
Poet Kurt Ostrow’s “Minor Deities” infuses the nonhuman world with the spirit of emancipatory politics.
Read MoreImagine a New Collectivism: An Interview with Adam Curtis
Samuel McIlhagga sat down with filmmaker Adam Curtis for a discussion of his new series, “TraumaZone, 1985-1999″—and had a wide-ranging conversation about his work, truth, lies, and journalism, dueling Ends of History, and more.
Read MoreJean-Luc Godard: On Prophecy and Pastiche
Samuel McIlhagga with remarks on the life and work of seminal French New Wave filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard, who died in September. Godard’s engagement with the political, however capricious, has been overshadowed by contemporary aestheticization of his work.
Read MorePruitt-Igoe: A Black Community Under the “Atomic Cloud”
In the 1950s, the U.S. military conducted unethical radiological experiments on Black communities, including the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, MO. Devin Thomas O’Shea shares a historical mystery involving nuclear physics, scientific racism, and the cruel neglect of the public good.
Read MoreAAPI Month
Sudip Bhattacharya’s poem “AAPI Month” asks us to remember, amid the pandemic’s enduring brutalities, the achievements of Vietnam’s anticolonial struggle.
Read MoreThe Red Telephone
In “The Red Telephone,” poet Kyle Carrero Lopez explores post-revolutionary Cuba as a sovereign force in Cold War politics, its “missile-shaped shadow” looming over both Washington and Moscow.
Read MoreSympathy for the Jersey Devil
This Halloween, Kim Kelly shares stories of where she grew up—New Jersey’s unique Pine Barrens—and of its mythical occupant, the Jersey Devil. The often-isolated people of the Barrens have a deep fondness for the chimerical cryptid, which is part kangaroo, part bat, part horse, part demon, and all New Jersey.
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