The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how
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Of the great symbols of the American Century, there are, to my mind, three that predominate: Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola and Superman. All three with an undeniable and immediate iconicity, recognizable from silhouette, slogan, font or color palette alone, they represent an American mass-culture at ease with its benevolent corporate purveyors,
The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how
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We are sharing the introduction from the recently published A People’s History of Psychoanalysis by Florent Gabarron-Garcia (Pluto Press, 2025) translated by Shuli. The book sketches a path, from Freud to the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (Socialist Patient’s Collective) in West Germany, to demonstrate that psychoanalysis has a rich history
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I know what you're thinking: I just don't have enough of Vicky's voice in my life. Sure, she posts like a madwoman on various social networks but that's just not enough, I want her long-form talking points and I want them NOW!
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Each of us believes our visions are good and right and with enough reason will be accepted generally.
A kind of absurdist fatalism has taken over discussion of "the current moment". In the last 22 months of genocide and reenergized fascism, the simple question "how are you?" has gone from almost dreadfully inappropriate, to a bit of a comic punchline in and of itself,
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Check out Dani chatting about her recent book, Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country! The conversation dives into the nuance and less heard stories around fire ecology, the land, housing pressures, and mutual aid in the wake of natural (and human caused) disaster. Mutual
The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how
Episode #3 of Resistance is Fertile! There’s your usual hardcore trekkies, and then there’s Romeo! The bar has been set, and both of us try to reach it, but kinda fail! We do, however, meander through most of the series from the Trek universe, touching on various episodes
In this episode, I speak with two beautiful trans writers, artists, thinkers, Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, who recently published Trans Femme Futures with Pluto Books.
We are inviting folks to send us short audio or text-based messages that reflect on the question: “How Do You Love, How Do We Live?”
“Fascism isn’t just about power—it’s about controlling the stories we tell. It warps narratives to justify oppression, trapping us in cycles of dominance and despair. But stories can also resist, break those cycles, and open the door to something new.“ This is how YouTuber and hardcore Trekkie
The Breakup Theory Episode 24 - Putting the Ghosts in Their Graves0:00/2822.4213331× In this episode, Caroline and I respond to a letter from a listener who is trying to navigate a tricky relationship. It is a relationship with a lot of fuzziness, moving from romantic and sexual
They call us crazy, criminals, perverts. Yes! Yes! A million times yes! Better madness than to be sane in this world of theirs! Better raving odes to whoring stealing and sleeping-in than Solomonic wisdom where bombs are safety and starving children needful justice. Better we inject ourselves with hormones made
Every time you donate $5 or more to a Gazan's fundraiser, send a receipt of the payment and an address to MovementStickers at Proton dot Me and we will send you a pack of five different stickers for a free Palestine.
Dearest CAW fam, I've been largely absent here lately as I finish up a few massive projects (including my final book edits! wooo! The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World out next Spring!) while simultaneously being in LETS FUCKING GOOOO mode thanks
Dear CAW, What’s going on with these manarchists? It’s 2025, have we not gotten past the tedious takeovers, the pointless pontification, the theoretical throwdowns, the fuckboy fuckery, the unaccountable accountability, the righteous reversals, the useless utopias, the know-it-all nay-saying, the abiding abuse, and the lamentable lack of insight?
by Dani Burlison & Margaret Elysia Garcia Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country comes out later this month from AK Press. The book itself has been an act of mutual aid and brings together folks from different corners of California who share their experiences