Could citizenship be erased through cloud technology?

You wasted a good crisis.

Cultural theorist Mark Fisher (RIP) vs. Mark E. Smith (RIP) from The Fall.

Does nature have a future? Not just the stuff of it—plants, megafauna, whatever—but the concept itself.

Today we dance in emptied out factories and warehouses, what role do these party-protests serve?

After Scarcity explores cybernetics in the USSR when computation ≠ total financialization.

A response to the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.

Assidule is a poetic consideration of racialized corporeality by Julien Creuzet.  

Everyone has their opinions. Our computers soon will have theirs.

Jon has coffee with a revolving cast of thinkers.

Bob goes to work.

The abstraction of the infrastructure we rely on hides a history of work.

Mirrors ring a claustrophobic space. Lights flash. Enter the riot police. Obscured behind darkened face shields, they menace. And then they begin dancing.

Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism, durationally read by Nico Fuentes.

Casey and her mom go head to head in episode one of MAD.

You’ve never seen mothers and daughters like this.

Wark summons Chantal Mouffe, explaining how the “liberal” and the “democratic” are pulling apart.

If architecture mediates learning, what does that mean in the era of remote schooling, where a technologically-dependent student body has become increasingly decentralized?

Investigating the tricks trolls play.

Are you ready for these looks and these reads? From artist, essayist, and community working pop star, Mandy Harris Williams comes a brand new series — Couture Critiques. 

Digital-music meets MDMA hangovers, police fines, and the ventilator beat of respiratory disease.

What are the ethics of getting a ton of milk to make nasty cheese in the age of global warming?

How virtual socialism works in massive multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft.

The home is not where you go when you leave the factory, it is a factory. 

Donald Anthonyson, Director of Families for Freedom, comes on to talk about immigration.

How do relationships between human and non-human animals reveal how we think about ourselves?

Boundaries have always been porous, mistaking them as anything but may just be our undoing.

Mykki Blanco guides us out of our straight, fossil-fuel soaked cocoon.

Exploring the black creative labor put into memes and the evolving theory of the poor image.

Do you have to wear a uniform? Or are you free to wear what you want?

Dance can be a playground or a battleground.

Eyes of the Nation explores the work of vision, power, and obscurity in the project of Israeli state-making through its media images.

Christen Clifford tackles the expansive and intersectional nature of gendered oppression.

Lawyer, actor, and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy investigates how the U.S. media uses a language of neutrality to obscure its ideological commitments.

From Courbet to the Kardashians with Jacolby Satterwhite

The garage is the domain of reality disconnect, re-invention, and self-fulfilling prophecies.

Jon travels to Mexico City to talk with Noam Chomsky animated as a monkey in tourist apparel.

If the art world places the party or the protest within its institutional frames, do they maintain their potency?

Gretchen Bender’s TV, Text and Image was the precursor to today’s ever-present memes and Tweets.

Capitalism forces us into a perpetual larval stage, an incessant need to consume and accumulate resources.

A meditation on questioning and universal truths.

An exploration of personal and collective histories and the ways design shapes our lives.

Susan Sontag in 1992 told Entertainment Weekly that she had never heard of Camille Paglia.

Preservation and paranoia, inside Pionen; an interview with its architect, Albert France-Lanord.

Casey prompts a mother and a daughter to discuss their relationship and help her save the world.

Siri, how do you make chicken?

Capitalism hides its shape from us, so let’s give it one.

How a food distributor named Joseph Eichler remade America.

Vogue Magazine's role in creating and recreating class power.

Posting bail is not just about pretrial freedom, but for ensuring freedom going forward.

Infrastructure is all around us, which is precisely why it’s so hard to see.

Artist Christopher Meerdo’s searing film weaves an emotive vignette on the state of contemporary politics and socialities.

For 3 short years no one lived in poverty.

Babak Radboy explains the ruthlessness of capital to children.

Plato's Cave was a Pizza Oven.

Murray Bookchin demonstrates how Time magazine obliterates time.

Imagine the end of the contemporary.

This is a nature show about the least natural thing of all: God.

The homes of Rabat, Morocco come to life to tell their tales.

We’ve had a long run as civilized predators; perhaps we will again become prey.

In order to responsibly read the news, one must ask oneself three questions...

An architectural response to the pandemic.

Gossip Girl here, you're one and only source into the scandals of financial capitalism.

How the platforms we use every day consolidate the worst extremes of neoliberal ideology.

Soon he began to realize where there’s knowledge, there’s a knower.

McKenzie Wark summons Paul B. Preciado and explains Pharma-Porno Capitalism.

An animal, representing all animals, on trial for crimes including “being disgusting,” in a dream-like confrontation between being and the law. 

Voyeurism and viewership have accrued new meanings during the pandemic.

Climate control is preparing us for a new doomsday economy, where even a green response could be an ecofascist wolf in environmentalist sheep’s clothing.

What is queer architecture? Well, what is architecture? Andrés Jaque explores.

The entrepreneur is cast as a high-tech hero but may be latest victim of precarious labor.

Tracing the racist legacy of land ownership.

Furniture restoration tutorial and a proposal for the delivery of reparations to African-Americans.

How can we replace fear and exploitation of the ocean with intimate love?

10,000 Words from Seasonal Associate, Heike Geissler's labor memoir for the Amazon Era.

Without the car, there’d be no suburbs.

 Can a movement be a memorial?

Are Mark Zuckerberg and his silicon valley tech bro progeny the modern incarnation of Ronald Reagan, Pastor Jerry Falwell and the 1980s conservative Moral Majority movement?

Witness Shakedown alongside Leilah Weinraub.

McKenzie Wark summons Sianne Ngai and considers a new set of aesthetic terms.

10,000 words from Chris Kraus’s Social Practices (2018).

Imagine William Faulkner had access to lysergic acid diethylamide and lived in an abandoned mall.

The A.I. embodied in Casey Jane Ellison wants us to know she’s in charge.

Siri, How do I make apple cider?

Meta’s self-betraying Super Bowl commercial explained.

There is something for everyone in this gastronomic high rise.

The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

It’s not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It’s the drone.

You can’t Seamless and Grubhub your way out of this.

Are you an Oatly drinking vegan libtard or a red-pilled edgelord chugging goat milk with a side of raw deer heart?

How do you build a libertarian future? The Seasteading Institute thinks it knows.

How does the Far Right get run-of-the-mill conservatives to cross over?

Undoing the neoliberal paradigm shift in Sweden as the result of a vast and carefully orchestrated plot.

The 30,000-year-old mainstay of art history 101 courses speaks.

Fashion label Women’s History Museum is here to (re)teach us how to dress.

Is Universal Basic Income the left's utopian holy grail or an oligarch distraction?

Based on a true story, Allen Ginsberg & Andrea Dworkin face-off as godparents in unholy matrimony.

Clio explains the basics of basic income.

Brontez Purnell reconstructs the life and movement of the late visionary choreographer Ed Mock.

10,000 words from Gary Indiana's Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985–1988

Neolib consumer culture explodes into a dark and anxious continuum from brand obsession to recreational warfare.

For some, water might barely get a thought even as it structures our existence.

Jon challenges Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos while speeding through a data center.

Can we invent a new kind of love? What do objects experience? How much connection is too much?

How do you teach a computer to think? It's not that different from a child.

Are networked nodes working together really the same as equal political participation?

The biological, ecological, and socio-cultural are not separate, Brigitte Baptiste explains why.

Brigitte Baptiste asks, where do local and global meet? And explains how neural ecology may be the key to understanding.

Who are ecological narratives for? Who are they by? Who do they leave out?

Fashion label Women's History Museum is here to (re)teach us how to dress.

Discussing the supercharged and interconnected political landscapes of Twitter and Tumblr.