The contributors to Conspiracy/Theory evaluate the relationship between critical theory and conspiracy theory as the basis for political thought, showing how people rely on conspiracy theory or critical theory to make sense of complex and confusing events and social crises.
Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice.
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking history or architecture. Focusing on the... Læs mere
An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas, showing how decolonial thought incorporates religion into its vision of liberation.
Draws on a high-resolution digital scan of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s woodcut View of Venice printed in the year 1500 to outline the ways it depicts the social,... Læs mere
Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture’s resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into... Læs mere
Cui Zi’en—China’s most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights activist—presents ten queer coming-of-age stories of young boys and men as they explore their sexuality and desires in contemporary China.
Mark Rifkin explores how the construction of family as a white liberal institution of race-making drives US settler-colonial violence.
Eric Drott undertakes a wide-ranging study of the political economy of music streaming to engage in a broader reconsideration of music’s complex relation to capitalism.
Drawing on cultural policy, queer and feminist theory, materialist media studies, and postcolonial historiography, Bliss Cua Lim analyzes the crisis-ridden history of Philippine film archiving—a history of lost films, limited access, and collapsed archives.
Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building a framework for justice, suggesting that nonhuman witnessing is central to combat contemporary global crises.
Lara Montesinos Coleman presents an ethnographic exploration of contemporary human rights discourse that reorients debates on legality, ethics, and humanity within anticapitalist and decolonial struggles.