Category: Theory and Essays

• Art Is Political

  By Shaun Smith During the halftime show at this year’s annual Super Bowl, Bad Bunny showed up and showed out, ending with a message of love and unity for America. Not just the United States of America, but America as a whole, with countries like Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico and more included in the message…

  April 17, 2026

  

• Arab Terrorist Costume, CU Boulder Chabad’s “Wild West” Purim Party, and Colonial Imaginaries

  At a “Wild West” Purim party hosted by Chabad at CU Boulder on March 2, a Jewish student arrived wearing a thobe and keffiyeh, carrying a prop stick of dynamite. The costume was, by its own visual logic, an Arab terrorist, a figure so thoroughly sedimented in American popular culture that it needed only a…

  March 16, 2026

  

• Theory: Creative Workspaces In A Democratically Planned Economy

  By Ludwig Yeonan Introduction The reconciliation of Individualism and Democratic Economic Planning is based on a distinction between different types of labor, and how work is done and income is allocated for each type. In particular, it has been shown that creative labor must not be accounted for in an economic plan, and all should…

  November 24, 2025