A new issue of e-flux is out. Dulcinea Pitagora (New School): Consent vs. Coercion: BDSM Interactions Highlight a Fine but Immutable Line. David Murakami Wood (Queen's): Global Cities Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics. Mario Polese on five principles of urban economics: Things we know and things we don’t. Unless we want to stop thinking of basic medical care as a life necessity, and we don’t, the case for Medicaid remains unimpeachable. When the writer mistakes his books for himself: Mike Darwin on Ray Bradbury. The LAPD Remade: John Buntin on how William Bratton’s police force drove crime down — and won over Los Angeles’s minorities. How can white Americans be free? The default belief that the white experience is a neutral and objective one hurts both white and American culture. Boss Hogg takes over as NRA president.
