It's hard to see Karl Marx behind the legacy of the failure of Communism. Marx wrote a lot, and much … More
Category: A Tour of the American Recession
Capitalism Without Symptoms: Protest in the Developed World
Slavoj Žižek sees the vagueness of recent protests in Turkey, Brazil and the U.S. as a symptom of a deeper … More
Postmodernism Is Our Antiquity
Kazys Varnelis, the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, … More
My 2009
This was an annus horribilis. In a lot of ways, my year mirrored broader conditions: It started in anxiety and … More
Dead Malls
I was driving through the north suburbs of Chicago the other day when I noticed something unexpected: Every mall I … More
Acqua Alta and Feral Houses
Yesterday my family and I enjoyed one of the last idylls of summer: a beach party on Lake Michigan. We … More
ReBurbia
Inhabitat.com and Dwell Magazine are sponsoring ReBurbia, “a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs.” Designers have submitted a variety … More
AllModern Giveaway
Well, it’s midsummer and the Great Recession is still here, and if your purchasing power is anything like mine, you … More
Literature and Culture After 9/11
Mark Athitakis at American Fiction Notes passes on the reading list for James Mulholland’s “Literature and Culture After 9/11” class … More
The Useful Arts
Jeff Chang has a nice piece in The Nation about the role of art institutions in bringing about change we … More
One-Way Street 