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the speeches of the gods snail out

By: Protean Magazine February 3, 2023
Poetry

In this compact lyric, poet Shira Dentz reflects on the fundamental condition of capitalist modernity: “how things become people / & vice versa.”

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Poetry

body modding at the Schaumburg Claire’s

By: Protean Magazine February 1, 2023
Poetry

Andrew Ketcham   The way his name suggests a wound. Ritualistic self mutilation. St. Sebastian. Penetration. Induced vomiting and martyrdom. Dentistry. Bleeding your mouth like nuclear pennies. How you roll it around. Sieve it between your teeth. Suck from it all tannins and meaning. Pierces your tendency to touch things you ought not. Fire cracker.…

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Poetry
A painted mural of industrial workers.

Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist

By: Protean Magazine January 15, 2023January 15, 2023
Critique & Essays

Energy researcher Nishikant Sheorey provides this primer on the field of degrowth: what it is, what it is not, and what its critics on the left get wrong. Far from being analogous to “austerity,” degrowth is instead deeply aligned with anti-capitalist values.

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Critique & Essays
Photo depicting workers and indigenous groups demonstrating against the right-wing Congress and military forces in Cusco, Peru.

ana contra la totalidad social: cuatro apuntes metodológicos / ana versus the social totality: four methodological sketches

By: Protean Magazine December 19, 2022December 19, 2022
Poetry

Amid increasing state violence against workers and pueblos originarios in Peru, we present an excerpt from Peruvian poet Valeria Román Marroquín’s collection ANA C. BUENA (La Balanza Editorial, 2021), translated into English for the first time by Noah Mazer.

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Poetry

Lamentations

By: Protean Magazine December 16, 2022December 16, 2022
Poetry

Poet Jake Romm’s “Lamentations” grieves the inadequacy of revolutionary poetry while maintaining the necessity of revolution: “A poem,” he writes, “is a failure / To fulfill the promise of poetry.”

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Poetry

Minor Deities

By: Protean Magazine December 15, 2022
Poetry

Poet Kurt Ostrow’s “Minor Deities” infuses the nonhuman world with the spirit of emancipatory politics.

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Poetry
A frame from Adam Curtis's Trauma Zone showing a Russian soldier.

Imagine a New Collectivism: An Interview with Adam Curtis

By: Protean Magazine December 7, 2022December 9, 2022
Interviews

Samuel McIlhagga sat down with filmmaker Adam Curtis for a discussion of his new series, “TraumaZone, 1985-1999″—and had a wide-ranging conversation about his work, truth, lies, and journalism, dueling Ends of History, and more.

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Interviews
A picture of Godard.

Jean-Luc Godard: On Prophecy and Pastiche

By: Protean Magazine December 2, 2022December 3, 2022
Critique & Essays

Samuel McIlhagga with remarks on the life and work of seminal French New Wave filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard, who died in September. Godard’s engagement with the political, however capricious, has been overshadowed by contemporary aestheticization of his work.

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Critique & Essays
The housing development is demolished.

Pruitt-Igoe: A Black Community Under the “Atomic Cloud”

By: Protean Magazine November 28, 2022December 1, 2022
Critique & Essays

In the 1950s, the U.S. military conducted unethical radiological experiments on Black communities, including the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, MO. Devin Thomas O’Shea shares a historical mystery involving nuclear physics, scientific racism, and the cruel neglect of the public good.

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Critique & Essays

AAPI Month

By: Protean Magazine November 16, 2022
Poetry

Sudip Bhattacharya’s poem “AAPI Month” asks us to remember, amid the pandemic’s enduring brutalities, the achievements of Vietnam’s anticolonial struggle.

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Poetry

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