5LL #375: Education, Weddings, Affordability, Consent, Movies
On World-Building: Lessons From a Martyred Teacher
Bayan Haddad, Protean
Under occupation, another kind of educational experience exists: one of constant disruption, erasure, and impatience, taught by the machine of the colonial project.
Bride at the Refugee Camp
Laura al-Tibi, Parapraxis
Precisely because they mark a joyous occasion, many Palestinian weddings are always already charged with revolutionary will and burdened with past and potential grief.
Editor’s Note
Paul Mattick, The Brooklyn Rail
Whatever happens now in New York is likely to further the idea already at work in Mamdani’s election: that a better life than the one we’re offered now is possible.
Manufacturing Cement
Charlie Markbreiter, Charlie’s Blog
Does anyone even manufacture consent anymore?
A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs
A. S. Hamrah, The New York Review of Books
Major film studios embracing AI, newspapers announcing the death of moviegoing, critics devoid of values: all of this can instill a great sense of defeat. We have to write against it.