Naturally, I also recommend Lauren’s book, A Map of Future Ruins, which she published this year.
Given the recent Greek Coast Guard story making the rounds, I highly suggest reading Lauren Markham’s 2022 feature on the country’s violent pushback of refugees and their vessels.
Pushbacks violate international law. But they seem destined not only to persist, but to spread.
I’m trying to keep it together watching this shit unfold but…
This is the one. On the Indigenous front alone, Richard Henry Pratt (Carlisle Indian School), Frederick Jackson Turner, and Buffalo Bill Cody were all shaping perceptions of doomed Native futures post-Wounded Knee. A teen James Earle Fraser (“End of the Trail”) was even there installing sculptures.
We’re told daily that the institutions that have harmed us should be broadened for our own benefit. It’s so condescending I can’t stand it.
Expanding the surveillance state is bad. Full stop. I cannot believe I have to say this in 2024.
An amazing thing about liberalism is how it allows one to reposition the most conservative talking points as radically inclusive. “Unpopular opinion but...” and then it’s something fascists would kill to see happen at scale.
<waves hello in Miamian> Yes!
That 60L bag looks like it could get pretty heavy/have an awkward weight distribution without a hip belt or chest strap if you plan to walk around with it a lot. However, the backpackers I know swear by the Scrubba but warn that if you have truly gnarly socks it can only do so much.
In Good Vibes Only I argue that such so-called hallucinations are only treated as mad/wrong/bad when they aren't aligned with the hegemonic order of ruler and ruled. Wild algorithmic speculations that align w patriarchal racial capitalism are not taken to be problematic the way 'hallucinations' are.