Archive of Media

Opinion columns were designed by God to have the same lifespan as a croissant.

By and large, contemporary social movements have failed to account for black women like the victims of serial killers in Peoria, Los Angeles, and Cleveland.

Today we might say the most relevant place to look for ideology in the world of culture is online, on social media.

Much of the UK tabloids' coverage of SOAS students’ demands is an unedifying combination of 1980s “loony Left” bashing and Trumpism.

The repetition of words like “thug” and “gang” in media coverage of anti-fascist demonstrators suggests the degree to which mainstream journalists, and centrists more widely, understand challenges to the state in the same euphemisms with which they express their own deep anti-blackness.

Continuing with a series of bonus chapters to General Intellects, McKenzie Wark looks at Yves Citton's work on the ecology of attention. Given the what can only be described as the media shitshow of recent times, an ecology of attention might be a good thing to which to pay some attention.

The fact that Macron adopts this position is a reflex, it is not something he has thought about doing. Everyone is the child of their own time and the circles they move in. That is the cost of his youth: for this generation has known nothing other than the hegemony of American visuals, an unconscious domination that has become like second nature. And the Finance Inspectorate, or banking is also a mental ecosystem in which the United States, the parent company, takes the code name "globalisation."