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Joshua Clover is a professor at the University of California, Davis, where he writes about poetry and economic crisis.
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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.
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Black Lives Matter resists definition and is full of contradictions, but that’s where its power lies.
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The allegory in the latest installment of The Purge is pretty clear: Election 2016.
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Why has trivial conversation become essential in contemporary cinema?
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Why did the movie Purple Rain want or perhaps need to produce and reprise a particular fantasy of interraciality?
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When it comes to the police, there is one gaping difference between pop music and television.
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Beyoncé’s “Formation” reflects today’s movement from black rage toward a racialized revolutionary politics.
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The anger over ceaseless racial threats has entwined with the recognition of campus as one more zone of unfreedom.
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A new app brings clarity to an old situation: the collaboration between journalism and capitalism.
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From the creators of The Matrix, the new Netflix show Sense8 inadvertently tells the saddest story in the world.