Hunger is no accident of war. It is used by colonialism and deployed in the service of dispossession. Our hidden gem of the week examines how international legal and financial regimes turn subsistence into a political weapon.
By Tanja Tabbara at @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
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Jeff Donaldson’s legacy stretches far beyond his vibrant, defiant paintings. A pivotal yet underacknowledged architect of the Black Arts Movement, he didn’t just make art; he built the cultural infrastructure necessary for Black artists to thrive on their own terms.
A crucifix in urine, a vulva-shaped dinner plate—this dialogue reframes the late twentieth-century culture wars not as a binary clash between religious conservatives and secular radicals, but as a protracted contest over who decides what is sacred.
With @apetro.bsky.social
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Elon Musk isn’t just a billionaire with big ideas but, argues this conversation, the embodiment of a new phase of capitalism. Musk’s growing control of infrastructure transforms public systems into private fiefdoms.
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The Cold War era’s promise of prosperity and rational progress masked new forms of political and cultural conformity. Reading Adorno alongside the Beats, our article of the week shows how both staked out a “logic of subtraction” with a reality deemed false.
By Vangelis Giannakakis
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Capitalism was above all a historically contingent creation. Tracing capitalism’s planetary conquest from imperial adventure to fossil-fuel extraction, our book of the week details how land, labor, and even survival itself became commodities.
By Trevor Jackson on @wwnorton.com
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Slavoj Žižek, once a radical voice cutting through the haze of neoliberal complacency, has veered into contradictions that betray his early emancipatory promises. His post-2015 pivot embraces a Eurocentric stance on migration.
By Raphael F. Alvarenga in @cosmonautmag.bsky.social
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As queer culture is commodified by Western media and corporate interests, this dialogue suggests the voices of marginalized communities, particularly in Central Asia, are forced into silence or invisibility.
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Long before museums fully caught up, Donaldson was building an art world rooted in community, history, and unapologetic Black beauty.
Elon Musk stands for more than an individual billionaire; he stands for a system. In conversation with Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian, authors of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.
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Raphael F. Alvarenga contends that Žižek’s post-2015 approach to migration, while retaining the language of radical politics, embraces a managerial logic of border control that blunts the…
