5LL #407: Settlers, Tech, Fascism, Cops, Theory
A Hellish Month in the Occupied West Bank
Jasper Nathaniel, Infinite Jaz
Inside a month of relentless violence, destruction, and suffering.
Where’s Daddy?
Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange, Parapraxis
Israel’s collection of automated warfare technologies seeks to dispense with narrative explanations for individual strikes and genocidal acts at the same time as it mobilizes generic technological narratives to affirm its status as Western-style democracy practicing warfare with neoliberal efficiency.
Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion
Benjamin Balthaser, Spectre
There is no political collective, no collective democracy, and nothing one could call the social. These are the dream worlds of disaster nationalism.
How Cops Consolidated So Much Power Over Local Governments
Charlotte Rosen, Defector
In disentangling the contested politics that made police power so mammoth and impenetrable, Blue Power offers key insights for the fight ahead, mapping out crucial sites of political weakness that—when aggressively challenged—may hasten the police’s undoing.
The Men Who Made Theory French
Dayna Tortorici, The New Yorker
French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side.