New Future

There are few contemporary intellectuals who can claim to have an official FBI warning to their name; Andreas Malm, associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, is the subject of at least thirty-five such missives. When Malm’s best-selling pamphlet How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire was

Neda Tehrani interviews philosopher Frédéric Gros about his new book A Philosophy of Shame and the uses and misuses of this "revolutionary emotion. "

In "Toward a Modern Monetary Theory of Doeflation, " poet Natan Last deconstructs the term "stagflation, " reveling in the jargon of economy and ecology.

Anna Aguiar Kosicki reviews Hannah Zeavin's new book "Mother Media", calling it "an intellectual reappraisal of the history of technological mothering casts much quietly accepted knowledge in new light. "

Drawing upon the work of Sean Bonney and Joshua Clover, poet Joni Prince's "Clarification Letter, Nov 2023" illuminates the stakes of the present crisis from Sacramento to Bab Al-Mandab.

In "Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic, " Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that "A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written post-extermination is a victory. "

To commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, we're honored to publish Nyree Abrahamian's "The Six Villages of Musa Dagh, " a poem steeped in the long history of Armenian resistance to Ottoman-Turkish colonization.

Syrian director Mohammad Malas's films attempt to preserve the memory of Quneitra, the Syrian town destroyed by Israel in 1974. With Israel again invading Syrian territory, Séamus Malekafzali introduces the filmmaker's mournful, & newly relevant oeuvre.

From Issue V: The original ambitions laid out at the Bandung Conference, which began 70 years ago today, for a "Thirld World" movement were far more radical than the eventual historical incarnation. Pranay Somayajula examines the contradictions of nationalism and statehood that conspired to ensure the internationalist vision’s shortcomings.

Physician Jake Sonnenberg reviews All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders, which collects writings that cast light on the flagrant injustices of for-profit healthcare and its complicity with police and the state—from cops in hospitals and sting operations on pregnant women to forced sterilization.