Join The Baffler TONIGHT at 6:30 for a panel discussion on the uses and abuses of political polling, moderated by @chrislehmann.bsky.socialwww.mcnallyjackson.com/event/engage...
Braving the rain at Brooklyn Book Festival? Stop by Booth 336 for all your Baffler needs—thrilling deals, new issues, and T-shirts hot off the presses.
Thanks to @silverman.bsky.social, we now have a complete list of who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter. It includes everyone from Larry Ellison to Sean Combs (aka Diddy) to the government of Qatar. Also, something called “Luchi Fiduciaria SR POS. 365”—please reach out if you know what that is.
It takes a lot of cash to prop up the broligarch Elon Musk—and some of it comes from unsavory sources.
At CPAC Mexico 2024, a socially retrograde platform dovetailed with another kind of callback: with the help of deepfake technology, Reagan welcomed attendees (in fluent Mexican Spanish), and Hernán Cortés galloped across the screen to praise colonizers.
At CPAC Mexico 2024, the Movimiento Viva México laid out their vision for a rejuvenated far right.
Where should the tenants’ rights movement go from here? Oksana Mironova talks with Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis about their new book, “Abolish Rent,” out now from @haymarketbooks.bsky.social.
Where should the tenants’ rights movement go from here? Two organizers are calling for the abolition of rent.
"...rent is a product of exploitation and domination...the product of an economic system that’s designed to extract wealth from tenants and enrich landlords and real estate speculators, and it’s a product of a political system that’s designed to enshrine the right to profit over the right to life."
Where should the tenants’ rights movement go from here? Two organizers are calling for the abolition of rent.
"Far from liberating creativity from the strictures of conventional mediums, technology like AI is only serving to constrain the artist’s vision." thebaffler.com/latest/gimmi...
A doctrinaire insistence that art must concern itself with the past or the future is beside the point.
So happy to see this review of Ariane Koch's "unhinged" debut novel OVERSTAYING (translated by Damion Searls) just up at The Baffler! thebaffler.com/latest/house...
In Ariane Koch’s novel “Overstaying,” a strange visitor helps the narrator grasp the moral rot at the heart of capitalist property relations.
Corporate greed tears apart working-class communities, leaving ecological and public health crises in its wake. It’s a theme that artist LaToya Ruby Frazier explores in her work. Taylor Michael reviews a recent retrospective at MoMA.
In the art of LaToya Ruby Frazier, the worker comes first. The same can’t be said for the museum that hosted a recent retrospective of her work.