Another Jurassic World is Possible
Jurassic World wrongly blames the sins of sequels on the audience.
Liberalism and Gentrification
Gentrification isn’t a cultural phenomenon — it’s a class offensive by powerful capitalists.
Chicken Littles of the Right
If the Right wants to cry about class warfare, we should give them something to cry about.
Revenge of the Nerds
No act of consumption is completely passive, but even the most active types of consumption form a shaky ground […]
Silent Majority Music
To put it most unkindly, trap music is adult contemporary for the prosumer age.
Just Flip the Switch
The trailers for Elysium promised a class-struggle masterpiece, but for all its triumphs the film’s politics don’t […]
Sympathy for Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman takes up the banner of the Luddites. Here’s what he gets wrong.
The Rise of the Machines
Automation isn’t freeing us from work — it’s keeping us under capitalist control.
Art without Humans
Those DJs lost. Serato is everywhere, and it happened with less resistance than one might have expected. Maybe […]
Reality TV and the Flexible Future
After every long day at the office I go home to face my addiction: watching other people work. Whether I’m […]
Sex House and the Refusal to Fuck
The problem for reality TV is that real life is too dull to make compelling TV, but compelling TV is obviously […]
Gimme the Loot
From Blackbeard to Kim Dotcom, has piracy been a radical force?
Gavin Mueller
Gavin Mueller is a contributing editor at Jacobin. He lives in Washington, DC.