5LL #344: Gifts, Liminal Spaces, Copaganda, Individuals, Pessimism
The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)
Juliana Spahr, The Nation
How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.
The Space Between
Abdelrahman ElGendy and Sarah Aziza, The Baffler
As Aziza wrestles with her own body, she is drawn into a deeper reckoning with her Palestinian family’s history of exile and the generational trauma that shaped her.
How to Sniff Out ‘Copaganda’: When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Alec Karakatsanis, Teen Vogue
Alec Karakatsanis's new book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News criticizes how the media covers — and enables — policing.
Blood-and-Soil Neoliberalism
Nick Serpe and Quinn Slobodian, Dissent
The radical right has successfully married market competition with ideas imported from neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, genetics, and other natural sciences—a “new fusionism,” with echoes of the old Social Darwinism.
Optimist Prime
Bruce Robbins, n+1
It’s convenient enough to judge the present by the standard of culture and assume a response of reflexive pessimism.