Tag: art
![Kathryn Updegraff, Hadja showing me [Kathryn] how a hand grenade is held, August 1957, The Degraff/Updegraff Archive.](https://spectrejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/algeria-5.png)
Lost History
The work and life of Kathryn Mathews Updegraff (1926–2018) has been untold for sixty-eight years. Her work captures a layered politics of resistance in Algeria—where women’s labor, both visible and concealed, formed the backbone of a revolutionary struggle too often narrated without them.
Review of Adam Turl’s Gothic Capitalism
Laura Fair-Schulz reviews Adam Turl’s Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth.
Palabras que arden/Words that Burn
María José Contreras reflexiona sobre la traducción y publicación en inglés de Quemar el miedo/Set Fear on Fire de LASTESIS.
María José Contreras reflects on the English-language translation and publication of LASTESIS’s Set Fear on Fire.
Cuando un libro grita/When a Book Shouts
Ángeles Donoso Macaya reflexiona sobre la traducción y publicación en inglés de Quemar el miedo/Set Fear on Fire de LASTESIS.
Ángeles Donoso Macaya reflects on the English-language translation and publication of LASTESIS’s Set Fear on Fire.
The Rabble and the Door
Steve Edwards on the semiotics of the invasion: “one set of supremacist fantasies faced off against another imaginary order.”
Street Art, Placemaking, and Anticapitalist Spatial Activism
Quill Kukla asks, “How can spatial activists in Berlin resist this subverting commodification of their cause, and how in particular can street art play a role in this resistance?”