How the weight-loss industry Uses Black celebrity in the Ozempic era

Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism

Speculative capital will soon destroy one of the South Korean capital’s most vibrant and diverse working-class neighborhoods.

As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.

Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.

The Zone of Interest can be understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and domestic labor.

The Joy of Consent: a Philosophy of Good Sex (October 2023) tests the limits of consent as a heuristic for "good sex," exposing the wide berth between pleasure and what is legible to the law.

Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin, the campus of the "anti woke" commentariat. Student names have been anonymized.

heteropessimism of the will, cruel optimism of the spirit

The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.

A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"

Sport, Capital, and the Far Right

Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes offers insight into contemporary Italian fascism

If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.

In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)

Yūko Tsushima’s novel of a mother on the margins