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Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything.

Primordial Freedoms: An Interview with David Wengrow

By: Protean Magazine March 28, 2022March 28, 2022
Interviews

Clinton Williamson spoke to archaeologist David Wengrow about his book with co-author David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything, and about how their new interpretation of the past confounds conventional histories.

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Interviews

Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster’s COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education

By: Protean Magazine March 22, 2022March 23, 2022
Critique & Essays

Free-market interests used fights over COVID protocols to further privatize K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research is funded by those groups, has laundered their ideologies and given them the imprimatur of science, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman.

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Critique & Essays

The apocalypse will have beach chairs

By: Protean Magazine March 18, 2022
Poetry

Poet Madeline Lane-McKinley’s “The apocalypse will have beach chairs” observes the end of the world as an accumulation of refuse: a dead seal, bottle caps, and the literary works of Jonathan Franzen.

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Poetry

Self-Portrait as a Hackberry Tree

By: Protean Magazine March 15, 2022
Poetry

KB Brookins’s concrete poem, “Self-Portrait as a Hackberry Tree,” uses ecology as poetic form to explore love, survival, and kinship.

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Poetry

Little Dog Day

By: Protean Magazine March 12, 2022
Poetry

Poet Gion Davis’s “Little Dog Day” meditates on poverty, resource extraction, and the struggle to survive under capitalism.

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Poetry
ALU members rally in front of Amazon.

Collective Ambitions: Amazon Workers on Their Union Fight

By: Protean Magazine March 9, 2022March 9, 2022
News Analysis

Sudip Bhattacharya’s interviews with workers at an Amazon facility in Staten Island reveal ruthless conditions, management’s overwhelming power—and how, despite that, they’ve found solidarity in organizing the Amazon Labor Union.

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News Analysis

Broken Homes of the Drug War

By: Protean Magazine February 25, 2022March 2, 2022
Critique & Essays

Far from aberrations or mistakes, violent police raids like the one that killed Breonna Taylor knowingly target Black homes—in service of both racist aggression and real estate profit, writes David Helps.

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Critique & Essays

The Blood

By: Protean Magazine February 17, 2022
Poetry

Germany-based poet Darling Fitch’s “The Blood” reminds us that, seven decades later, Europe still hasn’t fully reckoned with the legacy of Nazi occupation and its “boring business of death.”

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Poetry

myth-making

By: Protean Magazine February 14, 2022
Poetry

Poet Lakshmi Mitra’s “myth-making” explores work, memory, and ecological death in India.

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Poetry

Review: Olga Ravn’s The Employees

By: Protean Magazine February 10, 2022April 27, 2022
Reviews

Adam Fales reviews Olga Ravn’s The Employees: a slyly oblique sci-fi novel that transposes the alienation of the capitalist workplace onto a 22nd-century commercial starship.

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Reviews

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