5LL #335: Lebanon, Higher Education, Prisons, Intifada, AI
Points of Entry
Mary Turfah, Los Angeles Review of Books
Since returning from Lebanon, I haven’t stopped thinking about glass.
Memos of Blood and Fire
Peter Coviello, n+1
However contused by the contemporary moment, this place we share remains a kind of living astonishment, maybe not itself indestructible but built up around human impulses and aspirations whose tensile strength you would be very, very foolish to underestimate.
The Hidden War Fueling New York’s Prison Guard Strike
Orisanmi Burton, Inquest
The deadly labor action can best be understood in the context of white supremacy and class struggle.
Palestinian Workers in the First Intifada
Fayez Sara and Ali Hilal, Long-Haul
The following fragments are translations from two articles from the late 1980s assessing the role of Palestinian workers in the unfolding of the First Intifada.
The Labor Theory of AI
Ben Tarnoff, New York Review of Books
Artificial intelligence may be the first attempt to automate and discipline human labor that even its creators don’t fully comprehend.