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The cover of Mute Compulsion.

Mute Compulsion [Excerpt]

By: Protean Magazine May 21, 2023May 21, 2023
Critique & Essays

Republished here is an excerpt from SĆøren Mau’s Mute Compulsion. Out from Verso, it’s a lucid examination of economic domination, which, Mau argues, constitutes an independent structural force shaping the context of for subjects and capitalists alike.

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Critique & Essays

how to interpret season as range

By: Protean Magazine May 18, 2023May 18, 2023
Poetry

In “how to interpret season as range,” poet Kinsey Cantrell explores how chronic illness and medical bureaucracy intensify the miserable cycle of wage labor and debt.

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Poetry

Feel Good Lyric

By: Protean Magazine May 1, 2023May 1, 2023
Poetry

In “Feel Good Lyric,” poet Wendy Trevino narrates the tangled logic of San Francisco’s housing market and its collusion with racialized state violence.

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Poetry
Academics strike at Rutgers in front of admin building.

The First Strike: Rutgers Academics Against Precarity

By: Protean Magazine April 21, 2023April 22, 2023
News Analysis

Sudip Bhattacharya, a researcher at Rutgers, reports on the recent labor action there. In the first strike of Rutgers’s 257 years, new solidarities emerged among not only precarious adjunct faculty and grad students, but also undergraduates, university employees, and beyond.

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News Analysis
Cover of Ludovico Silva, Marx's Literary Style

Review: Marx’s Literary Style, by Ludovico Silva

By: Protean Magazine April 12, 2023April 15, 2023
Reviews

Sam Russek reviews Verso’s new English edition of Ludovico Silva’s classic Marx’s Literary Style (trans. Paco Brito Núñez). As Silva illustrated in 1971, Marx’s harmonies between concretion and literary flourishes are key to his work’s effect.

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Reviews

[Scholars say El Salvador…]

By: Protean Magazine April 4, 2023
Poetry

Part of a larger sonnet sequence based on the pre-Columbian myth of El Cipitio, William Archila’s untitled poem explores Salvadoran history and the scholars who distort it.

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Poetry

Ballad of saltwater children

By: Protean Magazine April 1, 2023
Poetry

In “Ballad of saltwater children,” poet Sarpong Osei Asamoah illuminates the histories of the Akan people and their long struggle against the “borderless noose” of racial capitalism and ecological violence.

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Poetry

Iron

By: Protean Magazine March 30, 2023
Poetry

Poet Cody Tracy’s “Iron” narrates our ecological and social decline as “A bond between rivers. Between the gone and / those of us not yet dead.”

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Poetry

Guitar-Shaped Forest

By: Protean Magazine March 21, 2023April 26, 2023
Poetry

Poet Brett Belcastro’s “Guitar-Shaped Forest” oscillates between visions of apocalyptic militarism and utopian longing.

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Poetry

In Shaa Allah

By: Protean Magazine March 18, 2023
Poetry

Nigerian poet Fadairo Tesleem’s “In Shaa Allah” is a prayer against war and a call to “lift the lamp of solace & may it flutterĀ / through the four edges of the world.”

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Poetry

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