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Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life seeks to revitalize progressive politics. We challenge progressive dogma by encouraging readers to think about the political dimension to all aspects of everyday life. We seek to broaden the audience for leftist and progressive writing through a commitment to accessibility and contemporary relevance. more »
featured articlesThe Speciousness of Origin: Notes from Palermo
The Neoliberal/Right-wing Psyche
The Liberal Psyche: Session One
Cyber-liberty, Democracy and the Arab Psyche
Word of Click: Social Networking and the Arab Spring Revolutions
reviewsmore »Robots All: A Letter to Kurt Vonnegut on the Anniversary of Breakfast of Champions
Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters by Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher
Freeing John Sinclair: Forty Years Later
Supernatural Aid in the Case of Robert Johnson
Color Me Obsessed: a Documentary on the Replacements by Gordon Bechard
The Black Keys Howlin’ For You
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call for papersBad Subjects Issue #83: Crafts
Submissions always welcome and accepted on a rolling basis, even for essays unrelated to the current Call for Papers. Please familiarize yourself with the publication's general style, political perspective and range of concerns before submitting, thanks. new issue (2012)Bad Subjects Issue #82: M(other)hood
This issue of Bad Subjects provides insight into the many political, social, and cultural aspects of women's lives. When it comes to women's lives, the personal truly is political. Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann stated in 2011 that women must be "submissive" to their husbands, bringing attention to Evangelical Christian gender dynamics and their potential influence on politicians' views on "social issues." Bachmann and her ilk have declared war on abortion rights. Although abortion and reproductive health services have always been polemical topics, women's access to adequate health care is under fire at unprecedented levels in America. Republicans, the party of keeping the government out of health care, ironically advocate increased governmental interference and restrictions on women's access to it. Despite federal funding for abstinence-only education, America has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world. read » recent issueBad Subjects Issue #81: Arizona Biopower
When Arizona is brought up many scholars, educational and immigration rights activists across the U.S. just shrug and say “Arizona is crazy” or ”that is Arizona for you”. However, we strongly believe that Arizona is a bas-relief to a matrix of racialized biopower that seeks to criminalize and denigrate subjects based on fear driven paranoia about indigenous and mestiza/o peoples. We sincerely hope that this issue of Bad Subjects will make a positive difference in highlighting the racism, violence, and anti-immigrant hysteria coming out of Arizona today. read » editorialsmore »Assassin-Wannabe Ted Nugent 
There are places you simply don't go. With his tirade at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in April, Nugent has put himself over the line. read » It's Springtime! Sex, Drugs, and Republicans 
Rick Santorum wants to make sex lives "special" by imposing his religiously-influenced views on contraception on the American public, leaving detractors in a froth over this new attack on personal liberty and the weakening division between church and state. read »
Oakland (after William Blake) 
I wander down each corporate street,/There where the corporate cop cars go... read »
Predator Drones, Reaper Drones, and Total Disconnect by Rosalie Riegle
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On a visit to our sewn and preserved fellow species in a Palermo natural history museum, the author ponders our inveterate need to diminish and hold out of sight our connectedness in the mesh of all life and the invalidities of our politics and presumptions resulting from our rigorously maintained blindness.
The author considers the present political situation as a psychomachia, a drama in which what any of the dramatis personae say or any of the bi-partisan accords they enact do no more than mask the “Unthought” that conceals the hidden heart of the matter. In this first "diagnosis," the author examines the neoliberal psyche.
We in the West typically refrain from couching international insights in culturally sensitive ways. In the Arab world the freedom to converse and not the mere googling of information is what can trigger political change and social networks make this possible.
Social networking's political value in the U.S. may not exceed its distracting/seductive values but such has not been the case with the Arab Spring Revolutions.
Your book gives the impression, not only that most humans act like machines, but that the universe itself is like a machine.
This book should be in every university or art school library, and be purchased by anyone who respects organized labor and its history.
In December, 1971, a twelve-hour concert was held to raise money for the legal fees of a radical poet and rock n’ roll impresario. In December, 2011, the Ann Arbor District Library sponsored several events to celebrate the John Sinclair Freedom Rally 40th Anniversary.
If not for Mr. Johnson and his myth, what would our world today not only sound like, but be like?
When it comes to The Replacements, there are two types of people—those who’ve never heard of them, and those who are unwavering in their conviction that they are the best American rock band in history. Filmmaker Gorman Bechard's documentary on the band, Color Me Obsessed, recently had its Michigan premiere.
It’s safe to say The Black Keys have effectively duped a substantial amount of the music-listening population. Keep this on the down-low, but the secret truth of the matter is what they really are is…a blues band.
Editors: Arturo J. Aldama, Peter J. Garcia & Mike Mosher
In commemoration of the endless Afghanistan war and as a final activity of a national Catholic Worker gathering, activists sat down in front of an entrance to Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada.
82: M(other)hood
Collective Action