[Summer 2005]
The "Constructively Negative" Sacred Cows Issue

 

In which all things stagnant and shibbolethic are gleefully skewered.

 

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The Lineup:

 

FRONT MATTER

  • Good Bye! Honest Obituaries for a Dishonest World. This Issue: Edward von Kloberg, Lobbyist to the Damned, Kills Himself in Customarily Flamboyant Fashion
  • Spotlight: Think Before You Pink
  • Rebecca Solnit gives her $.02 on irony and the aesthetics of circumvention

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

  • If Women Ruled the World, Nothing Would be Different
    Gender essentialism and the problems of a woman-centered feminism
    by Lisa Jervis


  • Held Hostage to Hope
    An Interview with Derrick Jensen
    by Spring Lundberg


  • - plus -

    We're Not Doomed, That's the Problem
    The Peculiar Development of "Catastrophism"
    a conversation with Iain Boal and David Martinez

  • Organics: Meaningful or Market Niche?
    How success is destroying the organics movement
    by Ariane Conrad Hyde and Erin Wiegand

    - plus -

    Soy to the World
    by Ariane Conrad Hyde


  • Sweatshop-Produced Rainbow Flags and Participatory Patriarchy
    Why the Gay Rights Movement is a Sham
    by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore


  • Make Media, Make Real Trouble
    What's Wrong (and Right) with Indymedia
    by Jennifer Whitney


  • Remote Control Hip Hop
    An Interview with Jeff Chang
    by Brian Awehali


  • Peeling the Electoral Onion
    Elections vs. Democracy
    by David Solnit


  • Who Needs Ends When We've Got Such Bitchin' Means?
    Consensus Reconsidered
    by Andrew Cornell


  • Heresy as Higher Calling
    An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight
    by Bob Offer-Westort

READINGS

  • Porn, Dignity, and the Masculine Mantle
    by Susan Faludi


  • For Sale/Barter: My Body, in Persistent Vegetative State
    by Anonymous


  • All Work and No Play
    by Bertrand Russell


  • Changing Darth Vader's Heart
    by Derrick Jensen

BOOK REVIEWS

Who is White?; Caliban and the Witch; Suburban Sweatshops; It's Just a Plant; Diet for a Dead Planet; Empire 2.0; The Bible

AUDIO REVIEWS

Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Readings from Subcomandante Marcos; oRSo: our dreams are back and they are better than ever; Dälek: Abscence; The Zincs: Dimmer; RIP Bass Wolf

FILM REVIEWS

Hotel Rwanda; Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land; Busted!

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