Debtpop Debtpop
Thinking about debt has become pop, and David Graeber’s Debt is the genre’s “Stairway to Heaven.”
Nov 25, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
What’s Going On What’s Going On
When it comes to protest, are pop songs smarter than us, knowing what they can and cannot do?
Oct 1, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Summer’s Fall: White House Down Summer’s Fall: White House Down
The happy ending to Hollywood’s summer: not guy gets girl but guy gets job.
Sep 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
‘Atlantic Rim’: Chomsky v. Zizek ‘Atlantic Rim’: Chomsky v. Zizek
An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.
Aug 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Leakonomics: Edward Snowden and the Pirates Leakonomics: Edward Snowden and the Pirates
Bounties on the mutineers demonstrate the limits of transparency.
Jul 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
White Wigs, Black Masks: On Surveillance Pop White Wigs, Black Masks: On Surveillance Pop
The cameras no longer look at us because we’re famous; we’re famous because they look at us to death.
Jun 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Red Country: On Taylor Swift Red Country: On Taylor Swift
Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?
May 7, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Pop, Charts: On Paul Krugman Pop, Charts: On Paul Krugman
Krugman affirms the way things are, no matter how often he choruses the word "change."
Apr 10, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover