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call for submissions vol v: browning the future
What does post-westernness look like? What does it mean to be a cultural practitioner working outside the current imperial centres? What happens when water becomes more expensive than oil? What colour...
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transmissions_006 // teju cole’s mushtaq mix
After I made my Capacity Mix for The State’s Transmission series, I realized that there was more I wanted to do with the question. There are any number of possible soundscapes for this cruel and...
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this is not a protest: ironic dissent in post-coup egypt
On November 30th, crowds gathered in Cairo in a protest that denounced itself as a protest. Ironically gesturing toward the new anti-protest laws, protesters carried signs claiming “this is not a...
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top 5 of 2013: tiana reid & asher kohn
As 2013 comes to an end, we asked some of our regular contributors to send us their top 5 songs, reads, and films of the year. tiana reid Tiana is a MA student in African American Studies at Columbia...
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5 cultural highlights of 2k13
exhibition of the year: traces: ana mendieta retrospective, hayward gallery, london. 24 september – 15 december 2013 When Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell to her death from her New York City apartment...
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best of 2013
I have always been out of joint in my cultural consumption. I don’t mean this in a trendy or hipster way. I mean that I have always been rather out of it. Calling me behind the times would make me...
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04/01/14 | triangulations cycle 1: vernaculars
Triangulations is a new series of themed talks, launching in January 2014 at Satellite, Dubai, UAE. Each cycle will consist of three talks, interrogating a different aspect of the theme. The first...
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the anarchist RAND corporation
The proposition of “An Anarchist RAND Corporation” was outrageous, but that was perhaps why it succeeded. In the years after the brief moment of Occupy in North America, there was a sense that...
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#dronesmovie
On Wednesday July 30th, there was a live stream “premiere” of the fictional film Drones. Presented by Demand Progress, the preview came complete with the side of the screen locked as a Twitter feed of...
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the future weird: remote control
Our protagonist wakes up alone in her room. Her eyes have rolled back into her skull. Half sleeping, and thus blinded, she reaches around for a wig that is resting on her nightstand. Its electric blue...
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design fiction barges
What does technology look like? It might seem as an unimportant question. It is much more important to determine what it is that technology does. The outside of the technology is just for show, for a...
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the state is growing
We are super thrilled to announce the addition of Caitlin Hu, Tiana Reid, Deepak Unnikrishnan as editors of THE STATE, Raja’a Khalid as contributing editor, and Lantian Xie as editor-at-large. They...
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how you love: interview with palestinian writer adania shibli
Adania Shibli’s books have no names, dates, or places. Stripped bare and broken into fragments of pure experience, her fiction explores how a human heart deforms under occupation. Named by Ahdaf...
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