Archives for 2023

Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.” The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked him, […]

Wendy Liu is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism. She lives in San Francisco and is working on a novel. The following is an interview with Malcolm Harris, author of this year’s national bestseller, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Palo Alto is a dense […]

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. –Winston Churchill, November 1942 Say what you want of the old imperious warhorse Winston Churchill, he sure could coin a phrase. The above-cited quote is one worth keeping in your back […]

In 1976, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Marie Miéville released a strange film called Here and Elsewhere. The film is in fact a series of unfinished shots stitched together from an earlier film that was never finished, Till Final Victory, alongside political critique from the filmmakers. In 1970, Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group had traveled […]

Adam shivered slightly against the cool predawn morning air as he glanced over towards the tent perched askew high on the embankment between the overpass and Admiral. Detecting neither lights nor movement, he turned into the QuikTrip parking lot and inhaled deeply as he turned off the car. Having played this part of the rescue […]

For the fall 2023 semester, I was hired as an adjunct lecturer to teach Dance 540, the history/theory seminar for graduate students in the dance department at Smith College. On Wednesday November 1, 2023, I was summoned to meet with the Associate Provost and the Director of HR Consulting. They promptly fired me in a […]