Over the last 40+ years, we have been bombarded with clichés about Islam. Shit media intellectuals endlessly argue for a moderate version of Islam that would sit comfortably within so-called Western ideals. Beneath all this talk, there has been a…
The dismantling of the social state wasn’t a conspiracy—it was a bipartisan project carried out in plain sight. For decades, under the banner of “public reform,” both Democrats and Republicans chipped away at public institutions. Austerity budgets gutted public services…
It has been 25 years. On January 15, 2000, I arrived in New York City and settled in Dumbo. Coming from Ankara, NYC was intoxicating—a place alive with artists, intellectuals, and even outlaws. Once I mastered the subway system, I…
I’ve been thinking about AI, language models, tokens, and possibilities of new artistic utterances. This brought me back to Deleuze’s famous long-form conversation with Claire Parnet, “Gilles Deleuze from A to Z,” also published as a book. For Deleuze, much…
In this election cycle, what we needed was transformative imagination—new ideas to ignite the old and inspire the young. Instead, Democrats, as usual, turned away from bold visions and a true commitment to public welfare and peace, ceding ground to…
Forty years ago, in their influential article ‘The Fine Art of Gentrification’ (published in October Magazine, Winter 1984), Rosalyn Deutsche and Cara Gendel Ryan explored the complex political economy of gentrification and the eviction of thousands of Black and Latin…
We are indeed living in dark times: racists/fascists are exerting tremendous pressure to silence dissenting voices, thereby threatening the very foundations of our fragile democracies. In the face of extreme polarization and disappointing positions taken by some intellectuals (Habermas, et…