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Television September 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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Photography August 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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Film July 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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Film June 7, 2016
Chuffah Degree Zero
Why has trivial conversation become essential in contemporary cinema?
Joshua Clover
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Arts and Entertainment May 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 Enforcement April 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 Analysis March 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 Education December 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 Media October 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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Television October 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