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Making the Future

Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

Noam Chomsky

Making the Future presents more than fifty concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011. Taken together, Chomsky's essays...

Art As Politics

The Future of Art and Community

Adam Krause

The arts originated in the day-to-day activities of human communities. But through the confluence of the culture industry and status driven high art, the products of artistic activities have become...

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?

Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual...

Watch Yourself

Why Safer Isn’t Always Better

Matt Hern

From warnings on coffee cups to colour–coded terrorist gauges to ubiquitous security cameras, our culture is obsessed with safety. Some of this is drive by lawyers and insurance, and some by...

Tales From the Sustainable Underground

A Wild Journey With People Who Care More About the Planet Than the Law

Stephen Hren

Activists striving for any type of social change often find themselves operating on the fringes of legal and social norms. Many experience difficulties when their innovative ideas run afoul of...

50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know — Religion

Daniele Bolelli

Adding to its popular “50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know series,” Disinformation has teamed with Daniele Bolelli—writer, professor of comparative religion, and renowned martial arts...

Dear White America

Letter to a New Minority

Tim Wise

White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a...

Rich People Things

Real Life Secrets of the Predator Class, Updated Edition

Chris Lehmann

In Rich People Things, Chris Lehmann lays bare the various dogmas and delusions that prop up plutocratic rule in the post-meltdown age. It's a humorous and harrowing tale of warped populism,...

Time and the Suburbs

The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent

Rohan Quinby

The latest in Arbeiter Ring’s amazing Semaphore Series! By combining provocative prose with photo-essay, Time and the Suburbs explores the disappearance of cities in North America under...