Everything Mall Is New Again
“The citizen in a mall-city assumes submission as a constant pose: there is nowhere else.” Krithika Varagur on the malls of Jakarta.
“The citizen in a mall-city assumes submission as a constant pose: there is nowhere else.” Krithika Varagur on the malls of Jakarta.
Krithika VaragurFeb 12, 2018
How neoliberalism is co-opting and undermining feminism.
Catherine RottenbergJan 7, 2018
The foundation of the state isn’t warfare; it’s actually the tribute that a strongman would demand from your garden.
Antonio GilmanJan 6, 2018
Neoliberal policy embraced the idea that the concern with fundamental values was of little use. What mattered was keeping the system going.
Martijn KoningsDec 28, 2017
How did René Descartes produce "cheap lives"? John W. W. Zeiser on "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things."
John W. W. ZeiserDec 26, 2017
Reece Rogers is rallied by “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials” by Malcolm Harris.
Reece RogersDec 9, 2017
In a way that was never the case for previous generations, engineering today is politics, and politics engineering.
Aaron TimmsDec 6, 2017
Jim Kozubek on the potential problems of profiteering in biotech.
Jim KozubekNov 25, 2017
A new anthology doesn’t quite explain Trump’s rise, but it does shed light on a persistent American problem.
Sean WoodardNov 14, 2017
Johannes Boehme talks with François Ewald about his early years as a Maoist, his relationship with Foucault, and his embrace of the insurance...
Johannes BoehmeNov 3, 2017
A review of Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore’s “Aging Thoughtfully.”
Ashton ApplewhiteNov 2, 2017
Stan Persky looks at Yanis Varoufakis's "Adults in the Room," the memoir of Varoufakis's brief tenure as Greece’s minister of finance in 2015.
Stan PerskyOct 17, 2017
A book proposing a universal basic income makes some compelling arguments, but falls short of closing the deal, says our reviewer.
Benjamin CunninghamOct 9, 2017
Alexis Clements on how the rigged game of capital exploits artists.
Alexis ClementsSep 26, 2017
Sixty years after Vance Packard’s “The Hidden Persuaders,” the persuaders are out in the open.
Mark BartholomewSep 24, 2017
Detroit is the great American Twilight Zone, where the macabre and the redemptive flow daily in almost equal measure.
Aaron RobertsonSep 13, 2017
Anita Felicelli on Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America."
Anita FelicelliSep 8, 2017
With Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, it's time to remember when Twain asked a deceptively simple question: who benefits from the breakup of a...
Matt SeyboldAug 30, 2017
Did the professional managerial class give us the alt-right? Catherine Liu on Angela Nagle's "Kill All Normies."
Catherine LiuJul 30, 2017
Loren Glass surveys the many strengths of Lise Jaillant's "Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde."
Loren GlassJul 29, 2017
When a world system is based on the creation of scarcity, it is the meek that inherit that scarcity.
Levi VonkJul 19, 2017
Ron Hogan reviews three new books on the digital plutocracy.
Ron HoganJul 19, 2017
Does the retreat from globalization also mean the withering of democracy? A new book worries so, says our reviewer.
David TalbotJul 16, 2017
In "Dead Pledges," Annie McClanahan uncovers how cultural production after 2008 registers a new crisis subjectivity in the wake of the mortgage...
Sofia CutlerJul 9, 2017