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TelevisionSeptember 15, 2016
Diamond-Dust Baroque
The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.
Joshua Clover
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PhotographyAugust 8, 2016
A Tale of Two Pictures
Black Lives Matter resists definition and is full of contradictions, but that’s where its power lies.
Joshua Clover
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FilmJuly 8, 2016
The Liberal Catechism
The allegory in the latest installment of The Purge is pretty clear: Election 2016.
Joshua Clover
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FilmJune 7, 2016
Chuffah Degree Zero
Why has trivial conversation become essential in contemporary cinema?
Joshua Clover
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Arts and EntertainmentMay 6, 2016
A Violent Room
Why did the movie Purple Rain want or perhaps need to produce and reprise a particular fantasy of interraciality?
Joshua Clover
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Police and Law EnforcementApril 5, 2016
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
When it comes to the police, there is one gaping difference between pop music and television.
Joshua Clover
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisMarch 9, 2016
Get Information
Beyoncé’s “Formation” reflects today’s movement from black rage toward a racialized revolutionary politics.
Joshua Clover
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Higher EducationDecember 17, 2015
Speechbros, Concern Trolls, and the Free-Speech Fraud
The anger over ceaseless racial threats has entwined with the recognition of campus as one more zone of unfreedom.
Joshua Clover
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Internet and New MediaOctober 29, 2015
Is Complicity Now the Entry Fee for Critique?
A new app brings clarity to an old situation: the collaboration between journalism and capitalism.
Joshua Clover
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TelevisionOctober 1, 2015
The Truth Behind the Televised Lie
From the creators of The Matrix, the new Netflix show Sense8 inadvertently tells the saddest story in the world.
Joshua Clover