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A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

This week, the editors revisit writer-artist Constance DeJong’s “In Between the Dark and the Light,” a piece published in January 1981 on “Television/Society/Art,” a symposium held at the Kitchen in New York City the prior autumn. DeJong’s Reader (Primary Information), an anthology of eighteen texts including out-of-print and unpublished works, is in bookstores now.Before the internet, television was of course the messiah-bogeyman of consequence, promising liberation via the democratic dissemination of information as it reinforced mass psychology and mores. With the participation ...

Instead of approaching the free market abstractly, in this short series, I’ll approach it from the standpoint of my own experience. In short, I’ll treat the free market in an autoethnographic account. Autoethnography is just what the word suggests: it is a genre of ethnographic writing and research that connects the personal to the cultural, placing the self within a social, historical context. For the Marxists who may by chance read this essay, one might think of it in terms of what the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci referred to as a means to knowing oneself as a product of history1—a...