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With Xin Wang, Daniel Loick, aracelis girmay, Sajan Mani, Benjamin Krusling, Simone White, Masao Adachi, Go Hirasawa, Ethan Spigland, Rebecca Jarman, Erin Manning, Matt Longabucco, and Thotti
In this issue, Xin Wang details the haunting of China’s contemporary art by socialist-realist pedagogy from the Soviet Union.
The Watchmen – State Violence in a Democracy The role of the police in western society is beginning to be understood and challenged in ways that were inconceivable only a decade ago. The belief in ‘law and order’ and the infallibility of the police – or at least their role as a force for moral good in a system designed to uphold basic rights was deeply held. But the deluge of state violence now routinely witnessed and shared has fatally undermined that belief system and exposed as being based on a set of myths. ‘Policing by consensus’ – the idea that you can only police a societ...