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Love in The Age of Cronenberg

Only now is the world ready for the queer, kinky idea of love in David Cronenberg's films

Cronenberg has long been the king of body horror. But for queer Zoomers, could this eccentric director become the prince of zaddies, the poet of kink?

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The Hero as a Drifting Shadow

The latest novel by the mysterious Joseph Andras gathers traces of Ho Chi Minh’s pre-revolutionary youth

Jim Henderson

Front Pages Online Social Movements

The Double Counterinsurgency

How an American tradition of popular sovereignty gave way to COINTELPRO with a ‘progressive’ face

Johnny Tran

Front Pages Online Social Movements

Notes on Labor Notes

Between compromise and radicalism, on the job and at the Labor Notes conference

Riley Gombis

Back Pages Online The Triple Review

Well That Doesn’t Sound Like Fun

On boredom, board games, and Debord

Elizabeth Sandifer

From Issue 3

Front Pages Issue 3 Letters

Reply to “Consider the Dinosaur”

Bill Marcy

Futon Issue 3

Pulitzer Bait

Los Angeles, CA | USA

Max Ornstein and John Michael Colón

Futon Issue 3

The Dialectic of Chess Story

New York, New York | USA

Thomas Hobohm

Front Pages Issue 3

Owner’s Remorse

Blockchain elites believe everyone deserves a stake in the internet. If Web3 becomes reality, will we all be equal stakeholders?

Eli Zeger

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Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

Alex Vuocolo

Political Economy & Planning

Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

How They Paid for the War

Social democrats should fight climate change the way we fought the Axis Powers

Wobbly Economics – Part I

Why Frederic S Lee was the greatest economist you’ve never heard of

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

Do Interest Rate Hikes Worsen Inflation?

Central bankers want to pull on one lever to lower prices; history shows this might raise them

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

Editorials

Socialism with an Anarchist Squint

Authoritarian creep, libertarian socialism, & democratic planning

An assemblage of colorful, elementary, 3D shapes.

Words for our Present Reality

A Modest Proposal for a New and Living Ontology

Reporting

Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

Social Movements

My McUnion

A fast-food worker learns unionization tactics while working to organize their restaurant

The Second Nakba and the Road to Genocide

Ethnic cleansing created the State of Israel. Is genocide now on the agenda?

Casa Against Campesino

Libertarian socialists played a key role in the Mexican Revolution – and its betrayal

Culture, High & Low

In the Domain of the Unknown

From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.

Dream City

Drifting through the city with Modiano and the Situationists

Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique

A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

Front Pages

Editorials Front Pages Issue 3

Can Technology Save Us?

The Left’s wires are crossed about technology. We hack away at the Gordian knot.

The Editors

Light bulb cartels, technocratic cults, world-wide web, world-ending nukes: would a socialism that takes tech seriously be for it or against it?

Owner’s Remorse

Blockchain elites believe everyone deserves a stake in the internet. If Web3 becomes reality, will we all be equal stakeholders?

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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig is the perfect Christmas gift. It’s short enough to read in one sitting and its prose is practically see-through. Every year, I’m tempted to give my copy to a friend, adorned with a handwritten note on the inside flap. But I never will. It’s too...