Issues

Sean Bonney’s Hate Poems

We are [. . .] unalterable rebels, without gods, master or fatherland; irreconcilable enemies of all despotism, moral or material, individual or collective, in other words, of law and dictatorship…

Introduction: How to Be Now

“What’s happening with the special issue? The ‘now’ of its title keeps changing its referent!” So one of our contributors complained in June, after we had predicted an April publication…

Fuck the Avant-Garde

Rachel Greenwald Smith

Ironies of Web 2.0

Damon R. Young

😂; or, The Word of the Year

C. Namwali Serpell

Painful Repetition: Service Work and The Rise of the Restaurant Novel

Since the 1970s, the composition of the working class in the United States has changed dramatically. Service work now dominates the labor market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that…

Philippine Reproductive Fiction and Crises of Social Reproduction

The quietest, most docile worker could, behind her apron or her uniform, be sharpening a blade. —Mia Alvar, “The Miracle Worker”1 On July 19th, 1994, Sarah Balabagan, a fourteen-year-old overseas…

American Graphic Design in the 1990s: Deindustrialization and the Death of the Author

This essay offers an account of one profession’s attempt to come to terms with the meaning of work in a context of economic and technological flux. Bound from the beginning…