![The Get Down](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the_get_down_otu_img.jpg)
Diamond-Dust Baroque 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.
Sep 15, 2016 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover
![Ieshia Evans in Baton Rouge](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ieshia_evans_police_rtr_img.jpg)
A Tale of Two Pictures A Tale of Two Pictures
Black Lives Matter resists definition and is full of contradictions, but that’s where its power lies.
Aug 8, 2016 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover
![The Purge: Election Year](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/purge_movie_sg.png)
The Liberal Catechism The Liberal Catechism
The allegory in the latest installment of The Purge is pretty clear: Election 2016.
Jul 8, 2016 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover
![Get Information](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Beyonce_Formation_sg_img1.jpg)
Get Information Get Information
Beyoncé’s “Formation” reflects today’s movement from black rage toward a racialized revolutionary politics.
Mar 9, 2016 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover
![Flyers posted on a college noticeboard at Yale University, November 12, 2015.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/clover_Yale_Race_Protest_Posters_rtr_img.jpg)
Speechbros, Concern Trolls, and the Free-Speech Fraud 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.
Dec 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
![Abandoned newspaper vending machines, Covina, California, 2011.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/clover_pop_cc_img.jpg)
Is Complicity Now the Entry Fee for Critique? Is Complicity Now the Entry Fee for Critique?
A new app brings clarity to an old situation: the collaboration between journalism and capitalism.
Oct 29, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
![Don Draper Meditates](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/clover_ourmadworlds_ba_img1.jpg)
Our Mad Worlds Our Mad Worlds
We feel something has ended but nothing has begun. Perfect harmony is a magical, effervescent bubble.
Jun 19, 2015 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover
![Financial Pop](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/clover_financialpop_ba_img.jpg)
Financial Pop Financial Pop
Money is sitting around in its sweatpants listlessly spooning peanut butter out of a jar.
May 6, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
![Jobs and Empire](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/empire_lucious_snoop_otu_img.jpg)
Jobs and Empire Jobs and Empire
The music of Empire is the theology of capitalism.
Apr 8, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
![From Lenin to Lego](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/snowpiercer_otu_img.jpg)
From Lenin to Lego From Lenin to Lego
Snowpiercer mocks what The Lego Movie cheers—a happy world of compulsory production.
Mar 24, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover