Mike, the UPS Guy, Gives Birth to the New People, But Now the Moon is a Cartoon Bomb

Born Again Labor Museum February 10, 2021

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Editorial

Feb 12, 2025

Fascist Pizza

Editorial

Feb 12, 2025

American fascism has a plastic shopping mall nostalgia. It is the fascism, not of a young empire thwarted, but an empire in decline. It is, at one level, a photograph of an abandoned Pizza Hut with the caption “This is what they took from us.”

Editorial

Feb 12, 2025

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Irrealist Combat League

Nov 28, 2023

Theses on the Theatrical Party

Irrealist Combat League

Nov 28, 2023

The Theatrical Party embraces the organization of pessimism in contrast to the false optimism of the left. To be a revolutionary pessimist is to separate the political actor from their role. It is this separation which, in the epic theater of Brecht, invited a critical outlook on the performance from its participants and spectators — the first step in the transformation of spectators into collaborators, a task integral to both theater and the forging of a revolutionary party.

Irrealist Combat League

Nov 28, 2023

Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl

Oct 31, 2023

Constructing Counter-Imaginaries

Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl

Oct 31, 2023

We want a record of the real in the work — as in the cotton and ash — as well as reclamations of our history and imaginaries constructed against the limits of working-class imaginations by capitalist realism. So the individual pieces are sort of vignettes of class pathos and poetry, often in an irreal idiom, and all together representing, as much as we can, the limitless expansive nature of these stories in aggregate.

Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl

Oct 31, 2023

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R. Faze

Apr 23, 2025

My Body's Claims, Verified

R. Faze

Apr 23, 2025

The mansion had to be more than twenty thousand square feet, with five wings; it took up two acres. In the backyard, a giant infinity pool overlooking downtown L.A., a jacuzzi big enough for a football team, an industrial-size outdoor kitchen that could feed two hundred people, thirty-two-seat table made of rough-cut red wood with an eight-inch-thick top, three brick fireplaces, eight open firepits, two pizza ovens, and more trees and flowerbeds than in a Vegas resort.

R. Faze

Apr 23, 2025

Adam Marks

May 11, 2024

In the Marshes

Adam Marks

May 11, 2024

“It snatched a dog two days ago, in Drapers Fields,” Detective Constable Habib explained back at the station to her superior, “right in front of its owner. They found its entrails wrapped around a lamppost on the High Road. It’s head was…”

Adam Marks

May 11, 2024

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Tish Turl

Apr 29, 2025

Hospitality Engine

Tish Turl

Apr 29, 2025

Naugahyde seats crackle and groan under my knees, / sounds like taking shoes off at the end of the night, / when I remember that the first computer / was a woman named Ada Lovelace / who worked from home, mailing numbers to a Difference Engine

Tish Turl

Apr 29, 2025