5LL #380: Empire, Conjunctures, Bombs, AI, Mexico
Homeland Empire
Nikhil Pal Singh, Equator
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.
Iran’s Three-Body Problem
Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh, n+1
Three main determinations are at work in the current conjuncture: the class character and political economy underlying the uprising; the dimension of imperialist intervention; and, among emerging protest formations, the political hegemony of the fascist right.
When Bombs Fall
poupeh missaghi, Parapraxis
What else is left to say other than that in a world where human life is less valued than ever before, on so many levels and through so many forms of violence, perhaps the strongest form of resistance against war and annihilation is through the art of living by holding on to the dignity of the breath of life, human and nonhuman, individual and collective.
After AI
Cédric Durand, New Left Review
If, due to profitability concerns, investment suddenly seizes up, a shrinkage in AI availability relative to its current abundance is a material possibility.
Unstable Coalitions
Madeleine Wattenbarger, The Baffler
To combat Morena’s grip on power, a coalition has formed across ideological divides between the once-hegemonic PRI, the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and the historic right-wing PAN.