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We’re very excited to announce that our fifth issue is now available for pre-sale. PROTEAN MAGAZINE ISSUE V: CONTRA TEMPS brings together some of the best writers, poets, and artists on the left. Pre-order now to receive rewards, merchandise, and more:

Protean Magazine Issue V Presale Campaign

Issue V is now available for pre-order. Reserve your copy today and earn special rewards! We’re pleased to bring you our newest print edition. PROTEAN MAGAZINE ISSUE V: CONTRA TEMPS is now availa...

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It's our honor to publish this translation of “I Grant You Refuge” by Palestinian poet, novelist, and teacher Hiba Abu Nada. Written October 10th, it is among the last pieces she composed before she was martyred by an Israeli airstrike on October 20th.

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We're publishing a third installment of messages from Gaza, collected and translated by the Institute for Palestine Studies ( @PalStudies ). We hope you'll read and share these letters to hear from Palestinians firsthand as they face IDF attacks.

Letters From Gaza, Part 3

The team at The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israel ramps up its assault on the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing...

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Journalist Jesse Singal has made a career out of “just asking questions” about gender dysphoria in youth. His arguments have proven appealing to reactionaries eager to demonize trans people, writes M.K. Anderson.

Singal and the Noise

Journalist Jesse Singal has made a career out of “just asking questions” about gender dysphoria in youth. His arguments have proven appealing to reactionaries eager to demonize and harm trans people,...

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Hanif Abdurraqib's poem ( @NifMuhammad ) "ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS" is now viewable by all readers.

ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS

From Issue 3: Hanif Abdurraqib's "ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS" is a stunning lament and an indictment of the crimes of criminal justice.

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This brief lyric from poet and translator Noah Mazer serves as the quintessential "Liberal Poem for Palestine."

Liberal Poem for Palestine

In this brief lyric, poet and translator Noah Mazer skewers liberalism's incessant denunciations of Palestine's armed struggle against colonial dispossession.

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The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating these messages so that the world can see the humanity buried under the rubble and the spirit of resistance of the Palestinian struggle. To help maximize their reach, we're republishing them here.

Letters From Gaza

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The Elizabeth Warren campaign has deployed an enormous balloon dog as part of a broader initiative to inundate the Internet with memes. Here's co-editor-in-chief Tyler Walicek on why it all sucks.

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Fargo Tbakhi ( @YouKnowFargo ) writes with a reflective essay on the role and duty of writing amidst a genocide. How do hegemonic priorities dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for Gaza, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?

Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide

Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us,...

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We are beyond grateful to Huda Fakhreddine ( @FakhreddineHuda ) for her incredible translation from the original Arabic.

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We’re honored to publish poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah’s “Palestinian,” translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine ( @FakhreddineHuda ). “I died and lived. I lit myself on fire. I put myself out with my own ashes, / and nothing came of it.”

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Poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah's "Palestinian" was translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine. As the Gaza genocide unfolds in front of our eyes, Nasrallah's poem ricochets between paralysis and...

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Corporate interests used fights over COVID to attack K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research they fund, gives their ideology the imprimatur of science, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman.

Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster’s COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education

Free-market interests used fights over COVID protocols to further privatize K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research is funded by those groups, has laundered their ideologies and given...

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Tad DeLay ( @taddelay ) writes on the futility of carbon offset programs. The exaggerated promises of carbon sequestration allow corporations like Delta Airlines, BP, and Tesla to make absurd claims of neutrality and launder ever-worsening emissions.

The Guilted Age of Carbon

Tad DeLay writes on the futility of carbon offset programs. The exaggerated promises of carbon sequestration allow corporations like Delta Airlines, BP, and Tesla to make absurd claims of neutrality...

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Alex Skopic reports on widespread attempts to ban books and shrink U.S. prison libraries. The carceral system is aiming to both further immiserate prisoners and set up corporations like Barnes & Noble to profit from them.

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The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israeli strikes kill thousands across the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing these messages here. This is the second post in this series.

Letters From Gaza, Part 2

The team at The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israel ramps up its assault on the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing...

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Google is firing union organizers.

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A recent Atlantic article by an economist, Emily Oster, badly misconstrued COVID risks. Such individual-centric analyses obscure social harms and disparities, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus, Justin Feldman, and Seth J. Prins.

Moral Calculations: Pandemic Coverage Obscures Individual Risk and Social Harm

A recent Atlantic article by an economist, Emily Oster, badly misconstrued COVID risks. Such individual-centric analyses obscure social harms and disparities, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus,...

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The idea that writers will produce better art as a result of struggling for money and time is just a permutation of the "nobility of the poor"—which has always been a capitalist deception.

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In “the apocalypse,” Devyn Springer ( @HalfAtlanta ) assembles a counter-history of imperialist violence. While the West pretends to stave off cataclysm, Springer reminds us that, for its numberless victims, empire itself is a perpetual apocalypse.

the apocalypse

by Devyn Springer. the apocalypse was rhodesia was israel / was the united east india company / was new zealand and australia / was jim crow and jim jones

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Joe Biden has refused to consider a national shutdown, despite the effectiveness of such measures abroad. His COVID plan relies on individual action and protects, above all, capitalist profit, placing innumerable lives at risk, writes M.K. Anderson.

You Can Only Watch

by M.K. Anderson. There’s a meme going around based on the old philosophical thought experiment of the trolley problem. Instead of branching trolley tracks—one track with people tied to it, one...

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This Halloween, Kim Kelly ( @GrimKim ) relates the history of gravedigger's strikes. Underappreciated cemetery workers perform an essential social service, but only collective action can win them pay and job conditions that reflect their importance.

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Devin Thomas O'Shea ( @devintoshea ) shares the saga of the scions of the Anheuser-Busch brewery empire: their arrogance, their self-mythologizing reality show, and the impunity afforded them for their crimes.

The Busch Family Brood

Devin Thomas O'Shea shares the saga of the scions of the Anheuser-Busch brewery empire: their arrogance, their self-mythologizing reality show, and the impunity afforded them for their crimes.

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Andy Hines ( @hinesaj ) writes on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite U.S. universities. Despite institutions' public commitments to free expression, willingness to quash protests can in fact be a selling point.

Discipline and Protest

Andy Hines writes on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite U.S. universities. Despite institutions' public commitments to free expression, willingness to...

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From @shane_burley1 , author of Fascism Today (AK Press 2017), comes our latest: Black Metal For The Oppressed. Shane documents and interviews the artists and metal devotees (incl. @GrimKim ) determined to banish fascists from the music and scene they love.

Black Metal For The Oppressed

by Shane Burley. Antifascist metal is the most dangerous kind there is, because it holds the revolutionary potential to enact actual change, to challenge oppressive structures and systems of power,...

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"Police fractured families, put people on the street, and removed children from their parents. It was cops—not Black women—who were creating 'broken homes.'"

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In the 1950s, the U.S. military ran unethical radiological tests on Black families in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, MO. Devin Thomas O’Shea ( @devintoshea ) shares a historical mystery of scientific racism and neglected public goods.

Pruitt-Igoe: A Black Community Under the “Atomic Cloud”

In the 1950s, the U.S. military conducted unethical radiological experiments on Black communities, including the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, MO. Devin Thomas O'Shea shares a...

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"In Florida, the Department of Corrections bans [Black-authored fiction and the work of Black thinkers like] Angela Davis; it has no such bans for Mein Kampf or The Turner Diaries."

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All eyes are on Gaza, but assaults on the West Bank are also ramping up, with over 64 killed so far. Just as we've been publishing Gaza letters, we'd like to publish accounts from the West Bank. Please share, and send testimonies to: submissions[at]proteanmag[dot]com.

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We're proud to be in good company in committing to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) as part of the BDS Movement (). Learn more, and sign the Writers Against the War on Gaza statement:

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At a time when major media is cohering around a narrative, we're hoping to help foreground Palestinian writers' firsthand accounts from Gaza, or alternately, their international perspectives on the ongoing attacks. Please reach out by DM or email: editorial[at]proteanmag[.]com

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With Mayor Pete irritatingly prevalent in the news, we think it's worth bumping @dschapmanu 's article on his complicity in installing ShotSpotter dragnet audio surveillance in South Bend. Let's definitely put this guy at the helm of the security state.

The Hypersurveillance Crusades

by Daniel Uncapher. Police are violence workers. The license to violence, like the license to commit rape, daylight abduction, and secret surveillance, has been granted by the state in exclusive...

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Pay your goddamn writers, folks, and pay them as well as you can. They're labor, and labor is the source of all wealth and culture.

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From Brendan Joyce ( @nicetryofficer ) comes a poem that speaks for itself: The forest, my comrade, whispers: “I am full of cops. I am on fire. They have names & addresses & a growing list of co-conspirators, go, find them. Settle my debt. Say my name.”

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The breeze through the sycamore trees’ sickly leaves / that screams worsening working conditions

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Protean is proud to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation and to commit to the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).

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The cover of Protean Magazine Issue 3: Breathing Room. Happy to announce that the issue is now available for purchase on our webstore. Get yours here:

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Our editor has been arrested while at a protest in a journalistic capacity.

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I have been placed under arrest for not having a laminated press card

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Today we're republishing a fifth installment of messages from Gazans under attack, translated and collected by the Institute for Palestine Studies ( @PalStudies ). We hope you'll read and share these accounts to amplify their voices.

Letters From Gaza, Part 5

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Centrist candidates Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar (and recent dropout Kamala Harris) have proposed re-institutionalization as a plank in their mental health policies. This, writes M.K. Anderson ( @QualiaRedux ), would only further entrench state violence.

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3 years

We are pleased to announce that our third print issue is now available for pre-order through our Kickstarter!

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We're pleased to announce that print submissions are now open for Protean Magazine Issue V. We're looking for critical essays and poetry. We welcome all topics—just send us your best! Please carefully review all of these guidelines before submitting:

Submissions

We accept article drafts and pitches, fiction pieces, and poems on a rolling basis for our online content. However, as we are working with a limited budget, we must be extremely selective.

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Now, without further ado: We are overjoyed to announce our list of contributors. Up first? None other than ELI VALLEY ( @elivalley )—illustrator, cartoonist, activist, and author of DIASPORA BOY. He's fresh out of jail for protesting ICE, and he's illustrating Issue 2's cover!

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The Institute for Palestine Studies ( @PalStudies ) has been translating and publishing messages from the people of Gaza as they undergo a genocide. We're republishing them to share the realities for Gazans on the ground. This is the eighth installment.

Letters From Gaza, Part 8

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In "Feel Good Lyric," poet Wendy Trevino narrates the tangled logic of San Francisco's housing market, revealing its collusion with racialized state and capitalist violence.

Feel Good Lyric

In "Feel Good Lyric," poet Wendy Trevino narrates the tangled logic of San Francisco's housing market and its collusion with racialized state violence.

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In Buffalo, NY, years of neoliberal “revitalization” and naked cash grabs set the stage for a spectacular socialist reprisal. C.M. Lewis ( @thehousered ) shares the context and significance of India Walton’s historic win in the mayoral primary.

Gilded Rust: The Making of Buffalo’s Socialist Upset

C.M. Lewis examines the context and significance of India Walton’s historic win in the Buffalo mayoral primary. Years of neoliberal “revitalization” and naked cash grabs have set the stage for a...

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Can’t a wealthy liberal hang out with her war criminal friend in peace? Jamie Peck ( @jamie_elizabeth ) of @the_antifada on Ellen, Bush, and what it means to have class solidarity—with an elite cadre of warmongers and propagandists.

It’s Not Surprising Ellen is Friends with Bush (& Other Crimes of Hollywood Liberalism)

by Jamie Peck. Apparently, some people do not take kindly to an ostensible progressive letting her hair down with the primary enabler of America’s torture program. Can’t a wealthy liberal hang out...

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In continued recognition of the work of the Institute for Palestine Studies ( @PalStudies ), we're republishing here a fourth set of collected and translated letters from Gazans under attack.

Letters From Gaza, Part 4

The team at The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israel continues its assault on the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing...

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From the scientific and political mind of @malloy_online comes "No Apocalypse"—our first piece on climate change. Why are we facing this weird clash of timescales between ancient carbon and modern capital? Find out here:

No Apocalypse

The world as we know it—the world of plastics, of cheap consumer goods, of the Internet—exists on a floated loan from the primordial past: a loan that has been silently accumulating interest. Our...

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The day has arrived. Protean Magazine, Issue 2 is now available for pre-order via this Kickstarter link. We thank you in advance for your support—the community of readers that we've built up over the past couple years warms our cold editorial hearts.

Protean Magazine, Issue 2: Anti-Sisyphus

The second issue of our critically lauded, widely adored, ad-free leftist literary and arts magazine.

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The New York Times is an ideological apparatus. So are we—we're just honest about it.

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I won't dunk on the person who said not to cancel a subscription to a newspaper if it publishes something you don't like—not because you should pay papers that publish anti-trans bias, but because the tweet was deleted. Give @proteanmag the money instead.

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Today, we're publishing our sixth collection of letters from the people of Gaza—messages collected and translated by the Institute for Palestine Studies ( @PalStudies ). We hope you'll read and share their words, so the world can see what has happened here.

Letters From Gaza, Part 6

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A powerful burst of organizing activity has erupted at University of California, Santa Cruz as grad students confront university inaction on cost-of-living increases. Digital communications made many of their actions possible, reports James Anderson.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Protean Issue 3: Breathing Room For Protean Issue 3, we are looking for critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art centered around the metaphor of breath. Full details and submission instructions here.

Submissions Call – Protean Issue 3: Breathing Room

The Italian communist philosopher Franco "Bifo" Berardi devoted his 2018 book Breathing to our “contemporary condition of breathlessness”—a condition which has only grown more acute in the years...

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Protean is setting an ambitious goal of gaining 100 new patrons in 2021. We need to raise our rates for writers, support the work of editors, and make the magazine sustainable long-term. We can't do it without your help.

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Caitlin Myers writes from Knoxville, TN: where hospitals shutter in record numbers, anti-maskers protest the Board of Health, and the self-described anarcho-capitalist county mayor is Glenn Jacobs, better known as WWE superstar Kane.

Knox Still Rocks: A Pandemic Dispatch From Tennessee

Caitlin Myers writes from Knoxville, TN: where hospitals shutter in record numbers, anti-maskers protest the Board of Health, and the self-described anarcho-capitalist county mayor is Glenn Jacobs,...

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Interweaving an Argentinian travelogue, a history of J. Posadas, and UFO mysticism, A.M. Gittlitz ( @spaceprole ) ruminates his multi-year international quest to collect extraterrestrial tales and understand the role they play in modernity and ideology.

The Bad Light: Hunting for UFOs and J. Posadas in Argentina

In the Pampas, the vast prairies of southern Latin America, there’s a tale that stretches back to colonial times: the legend of the luz mala, or the bad light. It appears just above the ground, in...

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Why do trees reduce violence? How can urban planning alleviate—or reinscribe—inequality? Amelie Daigle ( @AnomalousAmelie ) examines structural injustice in public spaces.

Trees and Other Abolitionist Allies

Why do trees reduce violence? How can urban design reinscribe—or alleviate—inequality? Amelie Daigle writes on the structural racism of infrastructure.

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Leftist movements and Christian liberation theology have much in common—yet the radical faithful receive little attention compared to the religious right. Matt Bernico ( @Matt_Bernico ) writes on some exemplary figures whose faith informs their politics.

The Saints of the Christian Left

by Matt Bernico. For some, faith-motivated politics looks like far-right evangelical Christianity. Others find ways to go to church every Sunday while remaining unconcerned about drone-striking...

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The actual extent of homelessness in the U.S., writes KJ Shepherd, is badly underestimated—a result of flawed counting metrics, enabled by the broader refusal of power to admit the true, staggering scale of the crisis.

Who Counts?

The actual extent of homelessness in the U.S., writes KJ Shepherd, is drastically underestimated—a result of flawed counting metrics, enabled by a broader refusal by power to admit its true, stagge...

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Far from aberrations or mistakes, violent police raids like the one that killed Breonna Taylor knowingly target Black homes—in service of both racist aggression and real estate profit, writes David Helps.

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Taylor Miller examines continuities between the disparate borderlands of the Sonora Desert and Palestine. In both, Israeli arms maker Elbit Systems tests weapons on people, and the tactics of exclusion practiced at one border inevitably inform the other.

Against These Walls: A Unity of Struggle from Gaza to Sonora

Taylor Miller examines the continuities between the disparate borderlands of the Sonora Desert and Palestine. In both, Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems uses living people as a testbed for...

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Our inbox awaits your pitches—criticism, news analysis, essays, and film or book reviews. Articles start at $175. Reviews start at $150. Rates vary based on word count and extra reporting or research and are always negotiable. Pitch us at: submissions @proteanmag .com

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Protean's own Steven Monacelli ( @stevanzetti ) managed to infiltrate a Dallas QAnon convention. He found that not only did it resemble a warped evangelical religious revival, but also that the movement continues to come alarmingly close to actual power.

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We're very pleased to announce Protean Magazine, Issue 4: Special Relativity! Now available for pre-order at only $15. Reserve your copy through our fundraiser—and pitch in at a higher tier to receive back issues, poster prints, and more:

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Happy to report that this morning, we achieved full funding! Endless thanks to all readers, funders, and followers. We're so excited that we get to make a second issue to share with you all.

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Shane Burley ( @shane_burley1 ) interviews Vicky Osterweil, author of In Defense of Looting, on the criticisms, political dimensions, and legitimacy of the riot, the history of street uprisings, and the role of private property.

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He's also, unsurprisingly in retrospect, a former McKinsey consultant.

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Paulo Freire's classic text Pedagogy of the Oppressed, writes Bryan Wisch ( @bryanwisch ), critiques traditional education for the ways in which it reifies power and offers an alternative model championing dialogue, critical thinking, and justice.

Radical Education: An Introduction to Paulo Freire

by Bryan Wisch. In winter 2011, the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal, a former state senator, tried to ban a popular Mexican American Studies program that was being...

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Happy to announce that Protean has just named a new Art Director. Talented illustrator and Crispin Glover impersonator @generalslug will be taking the helm of our sprawling design bureau. Right now, white smoke is billowing from the chapel at the corporate campus.

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In the 1930s, Ludwig Wittgenstein embarked on an abortive trip to Russia to work with his hands. Jared Marcel Pollen ( @JaredMPollen ) traces affinities between Wittgenstein's late philosophy and the materialist currents that animated the Soviet revolution.

Wittgenstein in Russia

In the 1930s, Ludwig Wittgenstein embarked on an abortive trip to Russia in order to work with his hands. Writer Jared Marcel Pollen traces the affinities between Wittgenstein's late philosophy and...

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From Issue 3: Kim Kelly ( @GrimKim ) marks the one-year anniversary of her grandfather's passing with a reflection on his life, and a condemnation of the workplace conditions that led to his death.

Stolen Air

Kim Kelly marks the one-year anniversary of her grandfather's passing with a reflection on his life, and a condemnation of the workplace conditions that led to his death. This piece appears in our...

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On Tuesday, we revealed to you Eli Valley's ( @elivalley ) striking cover of Protean Issue II: Anti-Sisyphus. Now, please enjoy this preview of what our labor of love looks like on the inside! If you like what you see, all this and more can be yours:

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Don't forget: submissions are open for online articles, including essays, news analysis, and reviews. Our base rate is $300. Review our submissions guidelines here, then send us your best pitches and drafts!

Submissions

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Elizabeth Warren's apology for her false heritage claims at the Native American Presidential Forum dodged the real issues and failed to atone for pushing a harmful narrative. We have Cherokee scholar Joseph M. Pierce ( @PepePierce ) with a response.

Elizabeth Warren’s Apology to Native Peoples Was Woefully Inadequate

Trust comes with daring to put the ethical obligations of mutual respect before politics. This is what being in good relations means. As a Cherokee, that is what matters to me. I cannot help but ask...

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Energy researcher Nishikant Sheorey provides this primer on the field of degrowth: what it is, what it is not, and what its critics get wrong. Far from being akin to “austerity,” degrowth is instead deeply aligned with anti-capitalist values.

Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist

Energy researcher Nishikant Sheorey provides this primer on the field of degrowth: what it is, what it is not, and what its critics on the left get wrong. Far from being analogous to “austerity,”...

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"If you read the Enlightenment, the works of Voltaire and Diderot and Montesquieu, this is what they say: 'We’re getting these ideas about freedom and equality from there, from Indigenous peoples.'" – David Wengrow

Primordial Freedoms: An Interview with David Wengrow

Clinton Williamson spoke to archaeologist David Wengrow about his book with co-author David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything, and about how their new interpretation of the past confounds conventional...

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"The official narrative is that donated books could contain 'contraband'... Instead, the bulk of the contraband in today’s prisons is smuggled in by guards themselves."

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Our review of Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' from Jimmy Wu ( @jimmyjwu ) examines how the film deftly stages class divisions and proffers a leftist critique of capitalism that's far more astute than mainstream critics are attributing to it.

Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ Seethes with Class Rage

Class is back on the big screen. From Sorry to Bother You to Joker, the past year has seen an explosion of popular movies that offer, with varying degrees of coherence, a critique of contemporary...

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Lyta Gold ( @lyta_gold ) examines the figure of the elf. Recurring across cultures—in fiction, in folklore, and in history—elves have come to signify realms far beyond the magical.

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"Violence Is a Shapeshifter" is a haunting new poem from @RidwanTijani4 , ruminates on writing, death, and civil rights with imagery that spans space and time. Interpersonal traumas shade into generational ones, making for a vivid and elegiac piece.

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"[E]lite media outlets traffick in a particular “individual consumer” style of pandemic coverage [and] have become a place for privileged professionals to propose behavioral norms for life in the pandemic that downplay or ignore issues of social harms and responsibilities."

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We’re pleased to announce that submissions for Protean’s fourth print issue are now open. Pitch us your best articles and essays, send us poetry and fiction, or share your visual art portfolio. See this post for rates and guidelines.

Submissions Call – Protean Issue 4

Our 2022 print submissions call is now open! The submissions period will run for 30 days, closing on Friday, May 27th.

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After Hurricanes Laura and Delta tore through Southwest Louisiana in quick succession, @DSASWLA members stepped up to aid residents—which surprised many in the conservative, oil industry-dominated region, writes Jonah Goldman Kay ( @GoldmanKay ).

Hurricane Solidarity: In the Wake of Disaster in Southwest Louisiana, the DSA Offers Mutual Aid

by Jonah Goldman Kay. Louisiana residents often depend on mutual aid to help rebuild communities after devastating hurricanes. But in a deeply conservative region, it often comes as a surprise to...

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Poet Stephanie Kaylor’s ( @sm_kaylor ) “What Do You Regret?,” a selection from their forthcoming manuscript Interviews With a Sex Worker, explores the “etymology of the bed” and its fraught histories of labor, pleasure, and trauma.

What Do You Regret? (Excerpt)

by Stephanie Kaylor. The days I am tired after bed because my bed is my office and I recall its etymology, pertaining to moral duty, performance of a task; the days I think what it means to go to bed...

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Hiba Abu Nada's "I Grant You Refuge" posted in Edinburgh as part of a campaign by Arts Workers for Palestine, Scotland.

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"Without a lockdown and work stoppage, people will be working in conditions sure to spread the disease, and he knows it. He publicly sells you a bill of goods about “listening to the science.” He is lying. That disgusts me, and it should disgust you too."

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Eugenia Zuroski's poem, "lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you," meditates on the uses of poetry in apocalyptic times: "the answer is other people, the answer is fuck art."

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"[C]ompanies like Global Tel Link supply supposedly 'free' tablets which actually charge inmates by the minute to read, even for public-domain classics... Prisons, in turn, receive a 5% commission."

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NEW: In South Bend, IN, faux-progressive Pete Buttigieg rubber-stamped the installation of a big-data audio surveillance system: ShotSpotter. This company and its fascist-sympathizer CEO embodies the worst of algorithmic policing and the security state.

The Hypersurveillance Crusades

by Daniel Uncapher. Police are violence workers. The license to violence, like the license to commit rape, daylight abduction, and secret surveillance, has been granted by the state in exclusive...

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Valued readers, Protean has fallen on lean times. We're doing our best to continue bringing you incisive articles and affecting poetry from across the left, but we insist on paying writers well, and that limits our output. If you can, become a patron here:

An independent leftist print magazine: essays, poetry, and art.

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In the first entry into our Reviews section, Abby Cartus ( @AbbyCScience ) gives her expert take on Tim Faust's ( @crulge ) timely and necessary clarion call for radical change in American healthcare: Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next.

Tim Faust Lays Out the Case for Radical Change in Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes...

For as much as Health Justice Now is about the machinations of health finance and the details of single-payer, it’s also a book about health as a function of power. It’s a book about a society that...

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Republished here is an excerpt from Anna Kornbluh's "Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism" ( @VersoBooks )—an analysis of the ways in which the immersion of the circulation economy has changed everything from writing to video to theory itself.

Immediacy [Excerpt]

Republished here is an excerpt from Anna Kornbluh's "Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism," a sure to be controversial analysis of the ways in which the immersion of the circulation economy...

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In the spirit of deep liberal bitterness, McSweeney's recently published an attempt to poke a little fun at Bernie supporters with a "satirical" series of letters. It ended up misfiring spectacularly, to Protean editor Tyler Walicek's great amusement.

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New in fiction: A surreal short story by Carl Harris ( @nightlifemingus ). A town finds that a heavenly city has appeared in their skies—along with an angel named Matt.

The Angel Is In

Carl Harris writes with a piece of surrealist fiction about the townspeople that confront a new reality: a city in the sky, populated by an angel named Matt.

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Please consider donating to prison libraries and supporting organizations that supply books to prisoners, like @AppalachianPBP , @btbphilly , @B2PSeattle , @InsideBooksATX , or others on this list:

LibGuides: Book Donation Programs: Donating to Prison Libraries

Information about how to donate books to needy libraries. Also includes resources for those seeking donations. Programs providing books to prisons

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We’re honored to publish “Garden Variety” and “Maqluba,” two poems by writer and translator Lena Tuffaha ( @LKTuffaha ) that traverse the brutalized landscapes of Palestinian history as well as the deceptions of Western diplomacy.

Two Poems

"Garden Variety" and "Maqluba," two poems by writer and translator Lena Tuffaha, traverse the brutalized landscapes of Palestinian history as well as the deceptions of Western diplomacy.

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From Issue IV: Drawn to the German socialist expatriates in the area, Karl Marx once considered making his way to Texas. Ryan Moore ( @rymoteenspirit ) examines how a Texan Marx might have analyzed the political economy of U.S. slavery from within.

Marx Goes to Texas

From Issue IV: Ryan Moore examines Marx's analyses of the U.S.—and his onetime emigration plans. Drawn to communities of German socialist expatriates in the area, Marx once considered making his way...

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We're extremely disappointed to hear that Splinter News is shutting down. Private equity must not be allowed to control journalism.

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Check out our newly redesigned website! More exciting announcements are soon to come.

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Abdelrahman ElGendy ( @El_Gendy_95 ) writes about The Encampment—from Egypt's Tahrir Square to US universities—as sites of radical love, promoting revolutionary ways of seeing and being which threaten the rotten order standing against justice for Palestine.

We See You: The Encampment as a Radical Reimagining

Abdelrahman ElGendy writes about The Encampment—from Egypt's Tahrir Square to the current Palestine solidarity encampments spreading across US campuses—as sites of radical love. As embodying revolu...

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