Seoul to Squeeze
The Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River. In Korean, neighborhoods built on hazardous slopes are called dal-dongnae, or moon villages, because they…
Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? – an interview with Eunsong Kim
Eunsong Kim, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property. Duke University Press Books, 2024. 328 pages. Eunsong Kim is a poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English…
Counter-mapping Complicity
It feels impossible to sit and write amidst the constant grief and urgency demanded in this ongoing genocide. Yet we feel compelled to write—compelled to document and archive the mobilisations…
One Year
October 7, 2024—Today, we can expect a parade of treacly sycophantism, brazen sociopathy, and humanist admonishment. They write for their mark, the reader they assume to be a dupe, slack-jawed…
World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Kahlili
It is difficult to overstate the centrality of shipping to contemporary capitalism. Indeed, without shipping, it is difficult to imagine the birth of capitalism at all. Between 80 and 90%…
Some Country for Some Women
On the question “how are we to live in an atomic age?” the writer C.S. Lewis declared, in a 1948 essay, that we think “a great deal too much” about…
Tiktok LLM
A grinning young couple points upward toward a caption reading “our simple seggs aftercare routine.” They playact the steps: shower, snuggle, bed. Scroll: next video, a woman in sunglasses tells…
The Sentimentality of Evil
I think about The Zone of Interest (2023) while I am making my kids’ lunches, running their baths, folding laundry. Similar domestic routines make up much of the film’s action,…
The University of Arizona’s Institutionalized Border Violence
courtesy Taylor Miller It was dusk for kilometers and bats in the lavender sky, like spiders when a fly is caught, began to appear. And there, not the promised land,…
Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir
You’ve may have seen Hindu Indians expressing their sycophantic admiration for Israel — both online under posts about Zionists as well is in parades and marches. But the relationship between…