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Exit Velocity
Bill Roberts reviews Barbara Gregorich’s latest book, Exit Velocity, a novel about a young working-class hero.
Reproducing Life Through Capital
Pedro M. Rey-Araújo offers a critical amendment to social reproduction’s idealization of life-making practices through an analysis of capital’s logic.
Commencement Address at the People’s University for a Liberated Palestine
Spectre is proud to publish Ananya Roy’s commencement address from the People’s University for a Liberated Palestine.
¡No fue el fuego, fue el estado!
Carla Macal reports on decolonial feminist organizing against gender-based violence in Guatemala.
Last Fair Deal in the Country
Jordy Cummings draws lessons from this year’s CUPE 3903 strike at York University in Toronto.
Social Lynching
Corey Devon Arthur discusses the racist media campaign in the run-up to his sentencing and what it felt like to be labeled a “superpredator.”
Toward AI Realism
Holly Lewis proposes a framework for understanding AI by contextualizing the technology, examining our intuitions, and analyzing the systemic logic of embedded material social relations.
Canary in the Coal Mine
Cody Melcher reviews John Bardes’s The Carceral City and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs’s Prison Capital.
Nos tenemos entre nosotres
Camila Valle details the history of self-managed abortion, showing that we have always healed collectively and that communities of care are where our power lies.
Resistance and Repression at Columbia
Sam Falcone and Jannine Salman write about the importance of the student encampment movement and contextualize CUAD in the history of student protest at the university.