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In Memoriam Joshua Clover - The Breakup Theory Episode 22, a rebroadcast of The Final Straw Radio interview from 2021
Today I’m re-releasing a conversation I recorded for the Final Straw Radio with Joshua Clover in 2021. I wanted to present this conversation in memoriam of Joshua, who we learned last week had died.
She's Not There
Cause and Affect
With every terrible event, my mind can’t stop from focusing on its contingency: it didn’t have to be this way. It almost wasn’t. If we knew better, we could prepare.
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Trans Ultraviolence
Striking back at transphobes of any gender is just as much a part of our transition as taking hormones, wearing new clothes, changing pronouns, surgeries, access to trans social spaces . . .
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Trade-offs
Can we make sure our belief in anarchy and freedom is not just another faith that serves as an alibi and positions us above history nodding our heads? The Enlightenment runs deep, a most dangerous export of colonialism. When we concede to reason(s), we lose autonomy.
On Rubicons Crossed
When Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River and entered the territory of Rome at the head of one of his Gallic legions, in 49 BC, he officially violated Roman sovereignty, broke the imperium, and began the civil war that would lead to the final collapse of the Roman Republic.
How It's Done Here
How It’s Done Here: The Women’s Revolution, Rojava, Part One
* This is an introduction to a series of essays about the women’s revolution in Rojava. Over the following weeks I will highlight different aspects of, and groups within, the women’s revolution and how western nations could learn a thing or two from them. Stay tuned… At the Iraq-Syria
Fascism Minus Kampf
Or, our enemy confuses the map for the terrain
Waiting for the Coup
Good morning sports fans! It's a great day for us sports lovers, at least if you're a total sicko like me and your preferred sport is line-go-down. Because, thanks to Trump's tariffs, the markets are absolutely on fire. For just one example: Bloomberg is
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The stifling air of rigid radicalism
We are encouraged—and we often encourage each other—to wear our politics and our analysis like badges, as markers of distinction. When politics becomes something that one has, like fashion, it always needs to be visible in order to function.
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Should We Care About the Universities?
The university prepared the way for this assault against its own power. It isn’t the institution that must be defended.
"Liberation Day" is Almost Here
Yesterday, on March 31, Beijing announced that China, Japan and South Korea would pursue a collaborative strategy to respond to US tariffs. It can be hard, during the rapid-fire changes of the global far right power grab, to reflect on just how unimaginable a strategic anti-US economic alliance between those