The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power—known by its acronym ACT UP—coalesced in the late 1980s with …
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Pushing on What’s Falling
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
Before the global pandemic and waves of insurrection, gaps in the empire’s dominion were already widening. …
Counteractivity, Counterculture & Alternate Encounters
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
The nexus linking resistance and protest movements with underground artistic practices is distinct, with significant overlap …
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Sanity & Identity
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
A tentative existence is what society’s current trajectory offers us: alienation from others simultaneous with chronic …
Authoritarian Character Structure
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Radical psychologists Wilhelm Reich and Eric Fromm answered the question of why people submit willingly to …
Virtuality, Sociopathy & Hyperabsence
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
The work/sleep, shop/discard, lose/win, simulated existence that is thrust upon us is fundamentally forced participation in …
Armed Madhouse
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
As the disturbing trend of mass shootings has steadily become a staple of American society, …
Death & Deadening
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Modern modes of handling concerns in the death and dying spheres seem emblematic of disturbing trends …