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We absolutely do not need to figure out how to make anti-racism anti-capitalist. We need to figure out how to start trying to build a mass movement around appealing to the material needs of the broad working-class. nonsite.org/why-black-live…

Every time a white student at Wharton checks his privilege, a venture capitalist gets her wings. Walter Benn Michaels nonsite.org/checking-your-…

using “white privilege” to denote “economic privilege,” white privilege scholars sidestep questions of economic justice and focus on the well-being of rich nonwhites, ignoring poor and working-class people of color. Hadass Silver nonsite.org/checking-your-…

Suggesting that attending to identity politics is what keeps us from fighting growing inequality is just barking up the wrong tree. Ashley Jardina nonsite.org/checking-your-…

Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity nonsite.org/checking-your-…

Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of Idealism. @nonsite_org (by Robert Pippin; Issue #33: Sensation and Perception: Modernity as Self-Constitution) HT @3QD nonsite.org/adorno-aesthet…

Any writings on how public museums' forced acceptance of certain art exhibitions because private collectors want to lend out their works for value appreciation is a perfect miniature for the neoliberal state?

Of course we understand that "decolonize" in “decolonize your syllabus” is metaphorical, that it means diversify or “decenter,” but that does little to allay the fact that formally, rhetorically, it collapses the distinction between colonizer and colonized nonsite.org/deneocolonize-…

The NFL is Banking on Biological Racism: It is important to recognize that the NFL’s apparent use of race-based criteria for denying access to settlement compensation is a textbook example of the way that the ideology of race is designed to work in society nonsite.org/betting-on-the…

Some recent coverage of the open letter to the SFUSD about their plans to destroy a WPA mural. google.com/amp/s/news.art… google.com/amp/s/news.art…

Please consider adding your name to the letter of protest. nonsite.org/editorial/open… nonsite.org/editorial/open…

New to nonsite, issue #27: The Nineteenth Century, Part 2, edited by Bridget Alsdorf and Marnin Young. Alex Potts, Social Theory and the Realist Impulse in Nineteenth-Century Art Hollis Clayson, The Ornamented Eiffel... nonsite.org/issues/issue-2…

New to nonsite, Adolph Reed's "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like." nonsite.org/editorial/what… nonsite.org/editorial/what…