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The team at The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israel continues its assault on the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing these messages here. This is the seventh post in this series.
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Emmerich Anklam reviews Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction—a timely book, writes Anklam, with an illuminating treatment of fiction’s dual status as culture and commodity.
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Cahuilla poet Emily Clarke’s “learning how to read” responds to the stultifying demands placed on Indigenous writers to perform a simplistic, often neocolonial caricature of Native struggle: “will you guide a flight of goosebumps up our arms,” they ask, “as / you use your mouth to mold white guilt into the / mallet we hide behind our backs?”
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Anthony Ballas and Kamran Baradaran interview Indian philosopher Shaj Mohan about Palestine, India’s role in the war on Gaza, constructing a philosophy against and apart from that of “rich white countries,” and more.
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In “Dimestore novels were documentaries,” poet and essayist Lyta Gold explores how the language of the supernatural and extraterrestrial inflects everyday life.
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This is the second part of a two part interview with Italian philosopher Alberto Toscano about his new book, Late Fascism, in which he discusses, among other things, fascism’s “religion of death,” the superstructural terrain of the fight against fascism, the new temporality of the climate crisis, and whether fascism’s internal dynamics mean that it will always collapse under its own contradictions.
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Last month, Jake Romm spoke with Alberto Toscano about his new book Late Fascism. Here’s Part 1 of the interview, covering the impetus behind the book, petit-bourgeois fascism, & the idea of petty-sovereignty & more.
Part 2 coming soon.
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The team at The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israel continues its assault on the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing these messages here. This is the sixth post in this series.
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In “For Every Eclipse, A Contradiction,” poet Madeline Lane-McKinley reflects on the history of solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle –– and the complicity of those who remain silent.
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The team at The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israel continues its assault on the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing these messages here. This is the fifth post in this series.
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