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Labor
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The Empty Lab, in Science and in Fiction
When literature refuses readers entry into the laboratory, it fosters suspicions of science itself.
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“The Door’s Still Locked”: Fiction after Fascism
“Labor” forces us to ask: Who has power? “Horror” forces us to ask: Who is the monster? And the combination of the two, “Labor-as-Horror,” tells us to beware the uncomfortable fractures in our otherwise ordinary work.
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Time Well Spent: Beyond Success and Failure in Romancelandia and Academia
What is writing a romance for? What is this essay for? Is work all there is?
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“It’s Just Scary”: Abuse and Power in College Football
“I was very much harassed and coerced by [Coach] and the staff for the better part of my time [in the program]. [Coach] would spread rumors to other members of the staff and players about me in an effort to get me freezed out.” This is what a recent former Power Four college football player—who…
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Lori A. Flores on “Awaiting their Feast”
You probably remember the picture of himself, both thumbs up, that Donald Trump posted on social media with the caption, “Best Taco Bowl.” It was his ode to Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo 2016. The picture was mocked relentlessly, and deservedly so. For Latinos, taco bowls aren’t really a thing. And even if they…
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“The World Didn’t Give It, but the World Can’t Take It Away”: Talking Black Joy and Black Freedom with Blair LM Kelley
“Joy is a uniquely interesting Black experience. We talk about joy a lot, we sing about joy.”
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Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward
“When I think about the novels that sort of shaped me as a younger reader, they’re often books that I call the dirt bag novel, which is sort of a reformulation of the bildungsroman.”
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“The Unique Magic That Happens When Two People Come Together”: Allison Pugh on Building a Society of Connection
“What we are doing by mechanizing encounters is bleeding out the unique and rather mysterious social outcome.”
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In Defense of Imagination
West Virginia University’s unprecedented cuts to its liberal arts programs sells the public a university tethered to market demands at the expense of imaginative expansion and intellectual curiosity.
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Politics—Not Tech—Can Save Black Jobs from AI
Don’t plan to make individuals retrain for new jobs. Instead, build a society that upholds the lives of everyone.
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There Is No Such Thing as a Good Book: On “The Art of Libromancy”
“I do not think bookselling is an art. I think it is a job.”
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Publishers and Scholars, Unite!
Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?
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Five Books on Labor and Ecology
Our scorching planetary age results from the conjoined forces of colonial extractivism, fossil capitalism, and postcolonial developmentalism.
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Let Them Eat Pedagogy
Changing myself and my classroom might help me renew my one-year contract, but it cannot prepare me to demand an alternative.
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What Really Makes Cities Global?
To ask what kind of city Los Angeles is today is, also, to wonder what kind of city it could be tomorrow.
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Chains of Domination, Chains of Solidarity: Benjamin L. McKean on Justice, Solidarity, Supply Chains
“For good or ill, freedom and solidarity and social justice are not things we can get quickly.”
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5 Books on the Politics of Indonesian Labor
People are familiar with how big the Japanese and South Korean economies are, but Indonesia is a rising power in Asia with a large labor force, and it’s very rarely being talked about.
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“Let Us Gather Together”
Capital violently forces dispossessed people into markets, workplaces, and prisons. But such forced meetings could end capitalism itself.
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Reading after the University
If you want to support readers, the best hope will always be helping do away with economic compulsion and the division of labor.
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Habits of Mind: John Warner on Teaching Writing
“You fall short and then you wonder, ‘what could I do differently next time that gets us a little bit closer?’ I love that process.”
