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.
Fanfictional Politics
Pedro Gossler
What if the fans know what’s really going on, better than the haters and those who don’t really care?
Shelter
The Influencing Machine Presents: Spooky Castle
Aaron Moulton, Jak Ritger, Abbey Pusz
How macro-political shifts became visualized in Contemporary Art after the Iron Curtain crumbled.
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DKP is Market Socialism
Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
How virtual socialism works in massive multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft.
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The Slow Red Pill
Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
How does the Far Right get run-of-the-mill conservatives to cross over?
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On Platforms
Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
How the platforms we use every day consolidate the worst extremes of neoliberal ideology.
The Swedish Troll Factory
Kybernein Institute
Undoing the neoliberal paradigm shift in Sweden as the result of a vast and carefully orchestrated plot.
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Good Company: Noam Chomsky
Derek G. Larson
Jon travels to Mexico City to talk with Noam Chomsky animated as a monkey in tourist apparel.
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.
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Medium Design with Keller Easterling
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.
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.
60 Million Americans Can't Be Wrong
Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann
Could citizenship be erased through cloud technology?
After Scarcity
Bahar Noorizadeh
After Scarcity explores cybernetics in the USSR when computation ≠ total financialization.
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Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times
Paper Tiger Television
In order to responsibly read the news, one must ask oneself three questions...
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Flo Kennedy Reads U.S. Press on South Africa
Paper Tiger Television
Lawyer, actor, and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy investigates how the U.S. media uses a language of neutrality to obscure its ideological commitments.
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Murray Bookchin Reads Time Magazine
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.
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Benign Violence
Derek G. Larson
Jon has coffee with a revolving cast of thinkers.
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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Reparation Hardware
Ilana Harris-Babou
Furniture restoration tutorial and a proposal for the delivery of reparations to African-Americans.
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Human Design
Ilana Harris-Babou
An exploration of personal and collective histories and the ways design shapes our lives.
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Red Sourcebook
Ilana Harris-Babou
Tracing the racist legacy of land ownership.
Neighborhood Goggles
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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.
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Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism, durationally read by Nico Fuentes.
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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.
Metadata
Christopher Meerdo
Artist Christopher Meerdo’s searing film weaves an emotive vignette on the state of contemporary politics and socialities.