Agathe Dorra is a PhD researcher in political aesthetics at King’s College London
One of the most energetic factions of today’s Right flirts with monarchy, myth, and high-tech transcendence. Drawing on the anti-modern sensibility of the fin de siècle Decadents, they reject democracy and seek to use imagined pasts to shape the future.
The gaming industry is turning every smartphone into a casino — and it’s destroying more lives than ever.
The Trump White House has helped install the ticking time bomb that is cryptocurrency directly into our economy. When it blows up, the damage will be catastrophic.
John Maynard Keynes warned that when real investment becomes the by-product of speculation, the result is often disaster. But it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
How one artist rode the NFT wave to fame — and then crashed with it.
The documentarian speaks to Jacobin about The Dark Money Game, his new HBO series on the corrosive effects of Citizens United.
We have all the vocabulary you need to score big on your Robinhood app.
More than half of the top 15 crypto-PAC-backed candidates during the 2024 campaign season were Democrats.
Are you missing the point by idolizing them?
A Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg satire of mainstream film’s IP problem — in which everything is an adaptation of something else — fails to excuse or address their own extensive IP crimes.
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a global currency backed by carbon removal turns speculation into salvation.
As history and literature are quick to remind us, many a get-rich-quick scheme has ended in sorrow.
Union assets have skyrocketed while membership remains largely stagnant.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon knows how to drop a beat. But could he handle a drop in the markets?
Zamrock emerged from the optimism of postindependence Zambia, fusing psychedelic rock with nationalist ambition. Its rise and fall mirror the promise — and the exhaustion — of a country built on copper.
Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.
DOGE has cut millions of dollars’ worth of grants in every state.
Why Nordic countries out-innovate the United States.
