We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie?
Bosie became a footnote in the story: an embodiment of āevil twink energyā, a poisoned apple whose path through life left a wake of destruction that led to the great heroās downfall.
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Quick Fixes: a Letter from the Editor
"Beneath the bright descriptions, interesting contradictions and energetic prose, lurks an impressive materialist account of drugs and American capitalism." -
The Nightmare and Dream of Autonomous Policing
Despite a wave of criticism,Ā both the NYPD andĀ LAPD have moved forward with plans to implement Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicles ā more commonly referred to as "Robot Police Dogs" ā into their departments' fleets. In this excerpt fromĀ After Black Lives Matter, Cedric G. JohnsonĀ breaks downĀ the implications of such a move. -
A Response to Clover and Singh
Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr. shareĀ theirĀ response toĀ Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh's "Revelation's Edge", regardingĀ No Politics but Class Politics. -
Queer as Folk, The New Labour project, and Sexual Modernity
Queer As Folk functions as a prescient parable for New Labourās political philosophy.
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If we ādo not dream of laborā, what do we dream of?
Admitting that what we hold dear is not outside of the grasp of the system we revile is not admitting defeat; it is accurately assessing the conditions so that we might fight back.
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After Work: a Letter from the Editor
"Study after study over the last century has confirmed again and again: technology has not reduced the amount of time spent on domestic labour in the home. How can that be true?"
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Inventing Sexuality: Ben Miller & Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Ben Miller and Amardeep Singh Dhillon join Eleanor Penny to explore the historical complexities of same-sex desire and gender deviance.
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We're So Glad It's You
As Adolph Reed wrote in 2014, liberals don't believe in politics anymore, only bearing witness to suffering. Here, former US diplomatĀ Josef Burton asks what the moral universe of contemporary liberalism consists of when allĀ hope forĀ change is foreclosed. -
Herbert Marcuse and 'cultural Marxism'
"Using the term ācultural Marxismā, and the failure to dutifully apprehend its meaning, may allude to a wider Brexit culture war within which anti-Semitic tropes can be subsumed."Ā Patrick Garratt looks into the origins of the anti-semitic trope, and the relevance of Marcuseās social theory in the new era of āculture warsā.
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For an Inch of Blue Sea
In May of 1934, Osip Mandelstam was arrested and interrogated by the OGPU for composing and reciting "The Stalin Epigram." This excerpt from Ralph Dultiās new biography of Osip Mandelstam details Mandelstamās life and work after his first brush with the Soviet authorities.
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Kitsch and woo-woo: cinematic visions of the ultrarich
Recent years have seen a boom inĀ cinematic fantasies of the uber-wealthy where viewers areĀ treated to mass spectacles of excess. But can any of them ever match the reality of the new elite, which is alwaysĀ dumber, more tasteless, and yet still more morally grotty than fiction could allow?
