Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. ‘ Bad Subjects …promotes the progressive use of new media and print publications… (and) seeks to revitalize progressive politics in retreat. We think too many people on the left have taken their convictions for granted. So we challenge progressive dogma by encouraging readers to think about the political dimension to all aspects of everyday life. We also seek to broaden the audience for leftist and progressive writing, through a commitment to accessibility and contemporary relevance.’ The current issue is an interrogation of television in the post-Sept 11 context. Upcoming issues include:

• Cruising (“When the Left takes on the character of a global carnival, traveling from site to site to lob rocks at corporate overlords and smash the state – or at least, dematerialize it — mobility is more important than ever.”);
• Immigration and Diaspora (“Across the world, immigration — how to control it, its desirability, who should be allowed to do it — has become a hotly disputed topic.The Immigration issue will investigate the various forms that these politics of immigration have adopted across the world.”); and
• The Aesthetics of Violence (“Violence — even where a defensive or liberational necessity — is quintessentially ugly. Its representation involves expressive choices that collectively constitute an aesthetic that turns such ugliness to political purposes. This issue of Bad Subjects examines how the aesthetics of violence manifest themselves under the terms of contemporary transnational capitalism. To whose benefit are bodies being mutilated on screens and on streets? How do dominant cultures perpetuate their power through representations of physical domination in action? What happens when violence becomes a consumer item? How did we come to enjoy the sight of violence so, how do we love it so?”).