Nations
The worldwide rise of nationalism is the last breath of the nation-state—a concept so undone by travel, by global supply chains, by drones flown from home, by refugees of climate disaster and war, that it almost seems absurd.
The future of belonging is, in reality, displacement. Of course, statelessness is not just a utopian vision of a sovereign- free future; it’s the forced condition that’s a hallmark of powerful autocrats who decry “globalism,” closing and militarizing their own borders while simultaneously profiteering on corporation-sponsored perpetual war abroad. In the midst of all this disaster, the nation’s porous and uneasy existence just might be on its last legs.
CALL TO ARMS
PentHouss
Mirrors ring a claustrophobic space. Lights flash. Enter the riot police. Obscured behind darkened face shields, they menace. And then they begin dancing.
After Scarcity
Bahar Noorizadeh
After Scarcity explores cybernetics in the USSR when computation ≠ total financialization.
Eyes of the Nation
Nicholas Korody
Eyes of the Nation explores the work of vision, power, and obscurity in the project of Israeli state-making through its media images.
The Drone is the Message
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
It’s not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It’s the drone.
Metadata
Christopher Meerdo
Artist Christopher Meerdo’s searing film weaves an emotive vignette on the state of contemporary politics and socialities.
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Donald Anthonyson and Families for Freedom
Hannah Black
Donald Anthonyson, Director of Families for Freedom, comes on to talk about immigration.
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Controlled Opposition
Matt Goerzen & Ed Fornieles
Investigating the tricks trolls play.
The Seasteaders
By Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Daniel Keller
How do you build a libertarian future? The Seasteading Institute thinks it knows.
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Chantal Mouffe
DIS
Wark summons Chantal Mouffe, explaining how the “liberal” and the “democratic” are pulling apart.
60 Million Americans Can't Be Wrong
Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann
Could citizenship be erased through cloud technology?
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Benign Violence
Derek G. Larson
Jon has coffee with a revolving cast of thinkers.
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Reparation Hardware
Ilana Harris-Babou
Furniture restoration tutorial and a proposal for the delivery of reparations to African-Americans.
Real Mass Entrepreneurship
Simon Denny
The entrepreneur is cast as a high-tech hero but may be latest victim of precarious labor.
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Red Sourcebook
Ilana Harris-Babou
Tracing the racist legacy of land ownership.
Narrative Devices
DIS & Babak Radboy
Imagine the end of the contemporary.
The Drone is the Message
Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
It’s not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It’s the drone.
Neighborhood Goggles
Meriem Bennani
The homes of Rabat, Morocco come to life to tell their tales.
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Marge's Intro
Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela
How a food distributor named Joseph Eichler remade America.
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Seduced by Suburbia
Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela
Without the car, there’d be no suburbs.
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Garage Conspiracy
Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela
The garage is the domain of reality disconnect, re-invention, and self-fulfilling prophecies.