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The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history?
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The Digital in the Psychic Machine - 100 Years of Now Journal
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How British Colonial Rule Took Advantage of the Maltese Carnival
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What the Art World Is Failing to Grasp about Christie’s AI Portrait Coup
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#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
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Hauntology: The Past Inside The Present
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Have Algorithms Destroyed Personal Taste?
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Fais tes cartons sans savoir où tu déménages par Paul B. Preciado
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Why Marvel and Other Hollywood Films Have Such Bland Music: Every Frame a Painting Explains the Perils of the “Temp Score”
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Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained [Updated]
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The Lord’s Prayer: the Maltese Semitic version and its historical origins - The Malta Independent
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Exiting the Vampire Castle
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The Blathering Superego at the End of History - Los Angeles Review of Books
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Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark | Dissent Magazine
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Privatizing public services could spell their demise – and the end of democracy
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For an Inclusive Culture, Try Working Less
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Speculative Aesthetics: Freeports as the Art Caves of High Finance
The Verso Prize for Cultural and Critical Studies is a new prize for the top student graduating from Birkbeck’s MA Cultural and Critical Studies . The inaugural prize has been awarded to student Neil
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Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News
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The Hidden Systems at Work Behind Gentrification - Motherboard
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United States v. Dylann Roof
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Why They Hate Melania Trump | Jacobin
Our new issue, “After Bernie,” is out now. Our questions are simple: what did Bernie accomplish, why did he fail, what is his legacy, and how should we continue the struggle for democratic socialism?