Polyamory and the blue hair/mask combo as training for polygamy and the burka.

Let the great neo-iconoclasm begin...

Come for Nina Power's moving reflection on her recent tour of Auschwitz and the meaning of historical imagination.

Stay for her round-up of the latest and best of Nina Power substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

'Jouissez sans entraves' has become 'don't enjoy—without hindrance!' And thus the long Boomer century comes (or doesn't come) full circle.

'The camp, which is now securely lodged within the City's interior, is the new biopolitical nomos of the planet' - Giorgio Agamben

Nina Power rounds up this week's pieces in COMPACT, shares her experience at the March for the Living, and recommends that you spend some time outside

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If everyone's subversive there's nothing left to subvert! Those stolid folk who persisted in defending old norms—for as long as they could—are heroes of reality. We shall erect a monument to 'the unknown bourgeois.'

Wonder if the spirit of '68 - which begins in Paris with the demand for men and women to be allowed access to each other's dorms - culminates in the elimination of sexual difference, and perhaps sex itself, to the soundtrack of an infantile scream of uncontained desire.

The team discuss campus clashes over Palestine protests, Harvey Weinstein's conviction being overturned in New York, and the death of author Paul Auster podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cla…

Today, COMPACT published our first-ever piece by a Nobel laureate.

It’s an *institution*, and Matthew Schmitz are in a very happy place. To our team, supporters, and, above all, readers and subscribers: Thank you!

So much more to come.

Elite universities are being forced to face a contradiction they have created: They now orient their educational ethos around social justice activism, but invest their endowments on a strictly amoral basis, insulating them from any public accountability./1

One of the less remarked upon features of recent years throughout institutional culture—corporations, NGOs, universities, museums, publications—is that basically no one is willing to accept simply being a junior member of the hierarchy anymore. The proverbial intern arrives at…

Today, for subscribers, it's Adam Lehrer on Hadi “The Persian Wolf” Choopan compactmag.com/article/long-l… 'Bodybuilding is simply too outwardly extreme in the United States, where a bourgeois aversion to drug use and belief in old-fashioned ideas about sportsmanship still hold sway.'

Today, for subscribers, it's Adam Lehrer on Hadi “The Persian Wolf” Choopan compactmag.com/article/long-l… 'Bodybuilding is simply too outwardly extreme in the United States, where a bourgeois aversion to drug use and belief in old-fashioned ideas about sportsmanship still hold sway.'