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A recent conclusion to the series of articles chronicling the movement against Cop City offers an impressive benchmark for analyses of ongoing struggles, but many of our descriptions of the ruling bloc still presume that it is a unified, wholly self-conscious force, whose true motives are unknown to us. As an attempt to think inContinue reading “A Conspiracy of Dunces | Lake Effect Collective”

An interview with Palestine Action. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/tactics-of-disruption

The Marx-Engels Complete Works project (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe [MEGA]) faced challenges far beyond those typically encountered in the review, collection, and editorial processing of any substantial body of work. — Read on http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/mega-from-the-historical-critical-dictionary-of-marxism/

Palestinian history is inextricably global, its locations many, and its social, cultural, and political entanglements with the world endless. The writing of Palestinian history, therefore, must necessarily attune itself to the local lives and particular struggles of refugees scattered across jurisdictions and far beyond Israel’s territorial control. — Read on sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2020/10/los-angeles-intifada/

In spring it becomes obvious how lovely you really are my baby my baby my baby soft voiced but strong In summer it is unavoidable you strutted right into bedstuywithout a sweat it seemed from the outside tho you say In fall it is clearer than ever the murderers drop facade and the world goesContinue reading “a year of lovin you”

The Essay applies a critical race and technology approach to examine a dimension of policing and criminalization that is taking new shape through advancing technology: collective state and private partnerships to control and monitor Black lives. It theorizes these practices as a form of crowdsourced surveillance that manifests in at least three ways: (1) inContinue reading “Crowdsourcing Surveillance by Chaz Arnett :: SSRN”

oh sila playa mexicana oh si la playa mexicanaoh sila playa de mi tierra a mi no me abierta oh si la playa floriditaa mi no me entregaoh si la playa californita no me da becita

To protect their own interests against the growing enthusiasm for communism, the capitalist class of the West permitted the passing of worker-friendly social policies. Here, I’m going to walk through a few examples of these policies that were motivated by fear of the U.S.S.R. and its influence in the world. I want to show howContinue reading “Concessions”

The coastline of southern California between San Diego and Los Angeles lies generally in a north/south direction, but as it proceeds northward, it slowly curves toward the west until at Santa Barbara, the coastline lies in an east/west direction. At the extremity of this westward curve lies Point Conception. The Chumash call it Humqaq, ”TheContinue reading “of the Western Gate”

It turns out that US military and intelligence agencies have a long history of using UFOs as a psychological instrument, having discovered their hyper-mimetic qualities in the 1950s. Decades before Doty’s variations on the theme, UFOs were a well-known self-replicating cultural trope capable of infecting individual and cultural consciousness and spreading like a virus. —Continue reading “Society of the Psyop, Part 1: UFOs and the Future of Media – Journal #147”