What is critique? A conversation between Simona Taliani // richard rechtman (4)
What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question serves as the point of departure for a series of […]
What is critique? A conversation between amira mittermaier // sylvain piron (2)
What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question serves as the point of departure for a series of
What is critique? A conversation between Faisal Devji // marco Motta (3)
What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question serves as the point of departure for a series of
What is critique? A conversation between Veena Das // Jocelyn Benoist (1)
What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question serves as the point of departure for a series of
Over 2,100 Hours of Silence: The Battle to Speak in the Name of Iran’s People
This fieldnote examines Iran’s internet shutdown — 2,100 hours accumulated over an eighty-eight-day near-total blackout, the longest documented outage in contemporary world history — not as a technical failure but as a political form.
The Cost of Harm to Indigenous Land and Water: Compensation, Cultural Loss, and the Limits of Government Repair
This article examines the McArthur River Mine Native Title compensation ruling as a landmark case in the recognition of Aboriginal cultural harm in Australia.
Code from nowhere
This essay ethnographically examines the maintenance of small-scale digital publishing infrastructures and the shifting culture of software work under generative AI.
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Film
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze.
Strengthening Women’s Financial Rights After Marriage: Matrimonial Property under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan
While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of women’s rights to matrimonial property has been uncharted territory.