Suspect Communities: Defining the enemy within.
July 31, 2020
In a new national security model, community members act as key operatives tasked with countering terrorist
propaganda. … More Suspect Communities: Defining the enemy within.
Tag: Geography
Digitize and Punish: Racial capitalism meets information capitalism.
July 8, 2020
The prototyping of criminal justice technology has been largely subsidized by tax dollars. Digitize and Punish is about an ongoing form of racialized social management that is slowly mutating through digital technology. … More Digitize and Punish: Racial capitalism meets information capitalism.
Freedom, fatal convictions, and the face mask.
June 29, 2020
Our awareness of death, of our finite existence as mortal beings, significantly shapes our social organization and how we ensure the (re)production of life itself. … More Freedom, fatal convictions, and the face mask.
The Power of a Pause
May 22, 2020
BY GERDA ROELVINK Over the past six months in Australia we have experienced a long and extreme drought, devastating widespread bush fires, and now the Covid-19 pandemic. These crises have brought to the fore already simmering questions about how we are to survive, let alone thrive, with others on this planet. Achille Mbembe’s (2020) reflection … More The Power of a Pause
False profits and finding meaning in life.
May 20, 2020
BY JAMES TYNER On May 12, 2020, during a Senate Health Committee hearing, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and efforts to ‘reopen’ the U.S. economy. Paul’s frontal attack on Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was part of a concerted effort among … More False profits and finding meaning in life.
Covid-19 and the struggle at the bottom of the labor market
May 12, 2020
BY MARC DOUSSARD Risky work and low pay shouldn’t co-exist. Economics textbooks and the public policies they support treat high pay—whether it’s an hourly wage, a stock option, or a lofty salary—as necessary compensation for the risks that befall people on the job. Without raising hourly pay well into the double digits, unpleasant or physically … More Covid-19 and the struggle at the bottom of the labor market
As the novel coronavirus rages in the US, it reveals a systemic rot and the privilege of profits over premature death.
May 8, 2020
BY JAMES TYNER As the coronavirus identified as Covid-19 began its steady, inexorable sweep across the globe—and, in the process, infecting not only people but the global economy—leaders in the United States sat by idly. Scientific experts, long chastised by President Trump and his followers as members of the ‘Deep State’, were silenced and subdued. … More As the novel coronavirus rages in the US, it reveals a systemic rot and the privilege of profits over premature death.
#UPWeek: Citizenship in a Time of Wageless Life
November 4, 2019
Ian Shaw, The University of Glasgow Marv Waterstone, The University of Arizona Eight men own the same wealth as half the world, and one in 10 people survive on less than $2 a day. We live in an era of staggering levels of global inequality. But even a term like inequality scarcely captures our conjuncture. … More #UPWeek: Citizenship in a Time of Wageless Life
Understanding the power behind the prison system
October 16, 2019
BY BRETT STORYAuthor of Prison Land In June, the federal government announced that it will be rescinding funding for a new federal penitentiary in Letcher County, Kentucky, finally putting to rest a project more than fifteen years in the making. The proposed maximum-security prison was to be built atop a former surface mine, like most … More Understanding the power behind the prison system
Suspects not Citizens: Criminalizing Muslims in the United States
October 2, 2019
BY NICOLE NGUYEN In 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his silver Dodge Charger into counter-protestors at the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fields’ reckless yet intentional actions killed thirty-two-year-old Heather Heyer and injured dozens more. Convicted of first-degree murder, aggravated malicious wounding, hate crime acts, and other federal and state … More Suspects not Citizens: Criminalizing Muslims in the United States