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Algorithmic Control and the Revolution of Desire

Not only do our devices know our deepest desires, they also reprogram what we want and how we go about getting it — keeping us to conformist paths.
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Mass Surveillance and “Smart Totalitarianism”

Under neoliberalism, state and corporate power have fused to impose new forms of social control, using technology to transform private life into a system of total domination.
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The Dog-Whistle Racism of the Neoliberal State

With the rise of neoliberalism, the state — and especially the police — has developed new, more subtle articulations of racism while entrenching existing racial inequalities.
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The New Merchants of Death

Social movements ought to place private military contractors at the center of a broader critique of authoritarian neoliberalism and America’s permanent war economy.
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The Drone Assassination Assault on Democracy

The grand irony of the super-modern technology of remote-control killing is that it has ushered in a moral and legal retrogression to medieval times.
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The Concept of the Wall

In contrast to neoliberalism’s ideology of freedom and openness, walls — enclosing rich and poor alike — abet privatization and precarity the world over.
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Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Myth of Free Markets

Far from acting in the name of freedom, neoliberalism has always been about the coercive, non-democratic and unequal re-organization of societies.
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Ground Noise & Static

Telling and reliving the collective story of the 2008 Republican national convention is fundamentally important for resistance movements in the US.
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Indigenous rights and the fight for life at Standing Rock

Solidarity and strength has brought victory at Standing Rock, but the water protectors know the struggle to protect their sacred lands is far from over.
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Last chance to subscribe in time for Issue #4: “State of Control”

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