5LL #390: Energy, Imperialism, Olives, Institutions, Bonds
War on Iran
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay, Phenomenal World
The world has never seen an interruption on this scale to the supply of stuff.
Night of the Two Suns
Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh, n+1
As the tragedy of murder and destruction unfolds in Iran—and Lebanon, and Palestine—an unbearable farce is simultaneously being staged in the imperial center, in three intense acts.
Harvesting Olives in the West Bank, in Photos
Jasmine Sanders, The Cut
For 7,000 years, the tradition has been a lifeline for Palestinians. Now, it’s under siege.
Hyperpolitics? Yes, Please
Alex Colston, Protean
Instead of being seen as a symptom, hyperpolitics could be treated as a social cause and shared condition around which people might rally in order to overcome the depoliticizing and demobilizing paralysis of both individual inhibition and the effects of state coercion and flattening capture by formal institutions.
Sticking It Out
Lily Scherlis, Parapraxis
In the 2020s, being dependent on something that is hurting you is the background radiation of emotional life—pick almost any institution.