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A Nuclear Refrain: Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of Protest

A Nuclear Refrain is a spatial fiction, and miniature chapbook (measuring 4 X 6 inches), that critiques the policy of nuclear deterrence, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, and the UK’s...

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Wound Building: Dispatches from the Latest Disasters in UK Poetry

I want to hate more and more graphically the devastation of the concepts that now collapse into resentful anxiety about borders and the impoverished people who die on the wrong sides of them, and I...

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Letters on the Autonomy Project

In the face of rising authoritarianism and on the heels of urgent struggle, autonomy calls to us. How might we excavate the theory and history of autonomous politics to arrive at new possibilities for...

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Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair...

A worldwide struggle between democracy and authoritarianism set against a backdrop of global surveillance capitalism is unmistakable. Examples range from Myanmar, China, and the Philippines to Hungary,...

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Evil Twins and the Ultimate Insight: Ayn Rand, Vladimir Nabokov, and the...

With the 2020 election, political polarization in the U.S. entered a ludicrous end-stage. Partisanship, once a pseudo-rational system of biases, has devolved to a conflict between incompatible...

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Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State

When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderless access, and frictionless communication. But...

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The Fight for Black Liberation: Breaking the Political Strings in the...

The presidency of Donald J. Trump unveiled the calamity of white America’s determination to maintain so-called societal order during a period of landmark racial upheaval. From the death of George P....

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Signs of the Great Refusal: The Coming Struggle for a Postwork Society

In recent years, developed countries have seen the rise of discussions concerning “the problem with work today.” Since this literature tends to reflect the frustrations of the professional–managerial...

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Flowers for Marx

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the...

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Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms brings together activists, artists, scholars, and migrants with diverse histories to explore what the experience of migration does with, and to, knowledge,...

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