An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Benjamin Charles Germain Lee is an incoming assistant professor at the University of Washington’s Information School. His essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in WIRED, Gawker, Current Affairs, Jacobin, Real Life, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and GoldFlakePaint.
  • Violence Quantified

    Violence Quantified

    Benjamin Lee examines the logics and legacies of CompStat: a ubiquitous policing management program that exists at the intersection of technological violence and corporate-managerial data evangelism.