Archives: Online Posts
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.
In Solidarity with the Encampments! In Solidarity with Palestine!
Palestine is the moral and political litmus test of our time. Spectre stands in solidarity with the encampment movement against the genocide in Gaza.
Palestine: Ground Zero of a Liberated World
Spectre’s Editorial Board invites you to a panel discussion on May 22nd discussing their special issue on Palestine. Featuring Eman Abdelhadi, Shireen Akram-Boshar, Sai Englert, Zachary Levenson, and Abdel Razzaq Takriti.
“Viva, Viva, Palestina!”
In this photographic essay, journalist Ari Golub depicts the energy, solidarity, and steadfast resolve among protesters at the George Washington University campus, where young people from across the DC area have convened as part of a nationwide movement of student encampment protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and university divestment from companies that profit from the Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians.
From Vietnam to Palestine
Richard Lai, Lynn Ta, and Promise Li discuss solidarity between Palestinians and the Vietnamese diaspora and the challenge of situating local organization in the context of global imperialism.
The Middle East on a Knife-Edge
Joseph Daher analyzes the Israeli-Iranian conflict in the context of US imperialism and the assault on Gaza. What should the left’s priorities be?
Prelude to a New Imperial Order?
Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber challenge the received view of US global dominance with a dialectical conception of our multipolar geopolitical order.