Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Your Debt Is Not A Moral Failure

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 3, 2012

Excerpt: Consider this: In an economy where home ownership is cast in such deeply racialised terms – in terms of who can buy and where – debt became a way to offer the false hope of citizenship itself.

Fuck Love

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 1, 2011

Excerpt: We continue to pretend that the only people who can fuck you up are the people you fuck.

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Make Marriage Work Like Disappearing Ink: Mexico Contemplates Two-year Marital Contracts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 30, 2011

Imagine that: a world where marriage is not some sacrosanct institution which you tie yourself to in order to survive.

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“What Happened in Room 2806?”: On Strauss-Kahn, the Maid, Power, and Our Fictions About Sex

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 8, 2011

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Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 12, 2010

Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.

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Such Beastly Love: Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 7, 2010

Excerpt: All around us, animals penetrate capital.

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What’s Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 7, 2010

Excerpt: You can have your identity, or you can have your rights as a worker. But it’s increasingly difficult to have both.

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Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2010

Skloot’s remarkable book parallels a deeply important story about a scientific breakthrough with an equally riveting one about the human subjects whose active and inactive participation helped make it possible.