Matthew J. Seidel reviews Road to Nowhere, the new book from Paris Marx on fantastical and farcical big-tech transit schemes and how they have substituted for the public good.
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Matthew J. Seidel reviews Road to Nowhere, the new book from Paris Marx on fantastical and farcical big-tech transit schemes and how they have substituted for the public good.
Read MoreIn this essay from Protean’s third print issue, now online, Kimberly Bain reflects on grief and memory: on the still-resonating echoes of Emmett Till’s death and his mother’s cry, on Nina Simone, on Black mourning across historical time.
Read MoreSamuel McIlhagga interviews Richard Seymour, author of The Disenchanted Earth, on socialism and degrowth, the ecofascist threat, and envisioning a planetary, humanist “re-enchantment.”
Read MoreBrianna DiMonda shares creative nonfiction from the perspective of a narrator who has undergone a routine abortion—attesting to the fact that, discomfort notwithstanding, the procedure is an inestimably crucial right.
Read MoreWith an eye to Orwell’s “The Road to Wigan Pier,” Samuel McIlhagga writes on the class codes of British diction and the incestuous tangle of the U.K. elite, who preside over a hidebound power structure and decaying institutions.
Read MoreRiley Tao shares a humorous piece of speculative fiction on the workplace discrimination experienced by transdimensional entities on a distant universal plane.
Read MorePranay Somayajula interrogates the insidious rhetorical tactics of far-right Hindutva ideologues like Indian PM Narendra Modi and the BJP and RSS, who tacitly sanction pogroms while staying at arm’s length from the violence.
Read MoreInnas Tsuroiya’s “Doomsday Pantoum,” wields the 15th-century Malaysian poetic form against the man-made kingdom of wealth, warning: “If you did not give up the lands, golden stools, / we laboring mass would start fires: must let go.”
Read MorePoet Karlo Sevilla’s “Apple Rant” follows the circulation of apples from U.S. orchards to street vendors in the Philippines, exposing the commodity as a site of imperial history, cultural anxiety, and class struggle.
Read MorePoet Sarpong-Osei Asamoah’s “Lost Dogs” is a prayer of revulsion, oscillating between the heavens and the sewers.
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