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Kyle Carrero Lopez’s poem “Itinerary” ambles across psychic shorelines, exploring the ways in which capitalism structures the family-form.
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Itinerary • Protean Magazine
Kyle Carrero Lopez's poem "Itinerary" ambles across psychic shorelines, exploring the ways in which capitalism structures the family-form.
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September 21, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Kyle Carrero Lopez’s poem “Itinerary” ambles across psychic shorelines, exploring the ways in which capitalism structures the family-form.
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In “Making Trouble at the Airport," A.R. Zarif deploys swirling phrasal repetition to explore the psychological fallout from post-War on Terror airport security.
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Making Trouble at the Airport • Protean Magazine
In "Making Trouble at the Airport "A.R. Zarif deploys swirling phrasal repetition to explore the psychological fallout from post-War on Terror airport security.
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September 20, 2026 at 12:23 AM
In “Making Trouble at the Airport," A.R. Zarif deploys swirling phrasal repetition to explore the psychological fallout from post-War on Terror airport security.
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From the Vanderbilt Report, Vanderbilt’s “First Principles,” to its expansion into NYC and planned AI campus in Florida, Daniel Diermeier is at the forefront of many of the worst developments in higher ed proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/d...
September 7, 2026 at 2:11 PM
From the Vanderbilt Report, Vanderbilt’s “First Principles,” to its expansion into NYC and planned AI campus in Florida, Daniel Diermeier is at the forefront of many of the worst developments in higher ed proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/d...
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In "art from the artist," poet Paul Ukrainets meditates on the work of poetry and the limits of the poetic imagination: "That sacred dream I learned as / worth wanting: to peddle images."
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art from the artist • Protean Magazine
In "art from the artist," poet Paul Ukrainets meditates on the work of poetry and the limits of the poetic imagination: "That sacred dream I learned as / worth wanting: to peddle images."
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September 20, 2026 at 12:08 AM
In "art from the artist," poet Paul Ukrainets meditates on the work of poetry and the limits of the poetic imagination: "That sacred dream I learned as / worth wanting: to peddle images."
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September 4, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We’re here tabling as a cosponsor at the Haymarket @socialismconference.org—come say hello!
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I think this piece is a very important read ⬇️
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Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?
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Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?
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August 19, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I think this piece is a very important read ⬇️
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Andy Hines on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite universities. Despite institutions’ public commitments to free expression, willingness to quash protests can in fact be a selling point.
www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/
www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/
August 12, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Andy Hines on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite universities. Despite institutions’ public commitments to free expression, willingness to quash protests can in fact be a selling point.
www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/
www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/
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Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?
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Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?
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August 19, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?
proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...
Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?
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Protean is an excellent publication.
Check out Devin O’Shea’s piece on the creepy secret radiological experiments done on the (poor, black) residents of St. Louis… 😱
Check out Devin O’Shea’s piece on the creepy secret radiological experiments done on the (poor, black) residents of St. Louis… 😱
For almost a decade, we raised the funds for writer pay and print runs by offering pre-orders, which served as an annual fundraiser.
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August 8, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Protean is an excellent publication.
Check out Devin O’Shea’s piece on the creepy secret radiological experiments done on the (poor, black) residents of St. Louis… 😱
Check out Devin O’Shea’s piece on the creepy secret radiological experiments done on the (poor, black) residents of St. Louis… 😱
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Subscribers will not only receive Issue 6 upon release—we’re also giving away this wall-size poster of original art to all new sign-ups, while they last.
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This is a great piece from Dylan Saba. For those who recoil at its implications, the challenge is constructing a narrative for defeating fascism that connects the "promise" of America to a final, and full, rejection of Settler Colonialism.
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The Enemies of 1776 • Protean Magazine
In "The Enemies of 1776", Dylan Saba traces the long history of the US's genocidal wars and pacification operations in the global frontier—from the Indian Wars, to the War in Vietnam, to the Israeli-U...
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July 28, 2026 at 9:09 PM
This is a great piece from Dylan Saba. For those who recoil at its implications, the challenge is constructing a narrative for defeating fascism that connects the "promise" of America to a final, and full, rejection of Settler Colonialism.
proteanmag.com/2026/07/27/t...
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Andy Hines on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite universities. Despite institutions’ public commitments to free expression, willingness to quash protests can in fact be a selling point.
www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/
www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/
August 12, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Andy Hines on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite universities. Despite institutions’ public commitments to free expression, willingness to quash protests can in fact be a selling point.
www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/
www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/
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In “Parable of the Modern Day Hijrah,” poet Isra Hassan reflects on the fraught meanings of pilgrimage in contemporary Islam.
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In “Parable of the Modern Day Hijrah,” poet Isra Hassan reflects on the fraught meanings of pilgrimage in contemporary Islam.
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Parable of the Modern Day Hijrah
In "Parable of the Modern Day Hijrah," poet Isra Hassan reflects on the fraught meanings of pilgrimage in contemporary Islam.
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August 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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In “Parable of the Modern Day Hijrah,” poet Isra Hassan reflects on the fraught meanings of pilgrimage in contemporary Islam.
proteanmag.com/2026/08/07/p...
In “Parable of the Modern Day Hijrah,” poet Isra Hassan reflects on the fraught meanings of pilgrimage in contemporary Islam.
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August 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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In “red script of questions,” poet Ali Choudhary creates a harrowing dialogue with the children of Gaza as they continue to endure Israel’s genocide.
Ali will appear in the forthcoming print issue of Protean Magazine.
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Ali will appear in the forthcoming print issue of Protean Magazine.
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red script of questions
In "red script of questions," poet Ali Choudhary creates a harrowing dialogue with the children of Gaza as they continue to endure Israel's genocide.
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August 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM
In “red script of questions,” poet Ali Choudhary creates a harrowing dialogue with the children of Gaza as they continue to endure Israel’s genocide.
Ali will appear in the forthcoming print issue of Protean Magazine.
proteanmag.com/2026/02/11/r...
Ali will appear in the forthcoming print issue of Protean Magazine.
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Antigone 11 by Fargo Tbakhi
when power decreed that body un-grievable, / everyone made mourning like a pet.
Fargo Tbakhi will appear in the forthcoming edition of Protean Magazine.
Antigone 11 by Fargo Tbakhi
when power decreed that body un-grievable, / everyone made mourning like a pet.
Fargo Tbakhi will appear in the forthcoming edition of Protean Magazine.
antigone 11
when power decreed that body un-grievable, / everyone made mourning like a pet.
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July 31, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Antigone 11 by Fargo Tbakhi
when power decreed that body un-grievable, / everyone made mourning like a pet.
Fargo Tbakhi will appear in the forthcoming edition of Protean Magazine.
Antigone 11 by Fargo Tbakhi
when power decreed that body un-grievable, / everyone made mourning like a pet.
Fargo Tbakhi will appear in the forthcoming edition of Protean Magazine.
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That’s no longer viable. If Protean is going to continue as a forum for the left, we’re going to need our readers’ help.
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That’s no longer viable. If Protean is going to continue as a forum for the left, we’re going to need our readers’ help.
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July 22, 2026 at 7:16 PM
For almost a decade, we raised the funds for writer pay and print runs by offering pre-orders, which served as an annual fundraiser.
That’s no longer viable. If Protean is going to continue as a forum for the left, we’re going to need our readers’ help.
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![A quote from the article linked above, by Dylan Saba. "The alternative is not a more perfect republic but the abolition of the political form that has tethered freedom to domination from the beginning, leveraging control over the conditions of life to curtail the political possibilities of its subject populations. The task is therefore not to complete the American project, but to bring it to an end [...]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:isnz66qblxvddepwc2bjcma6/bafkreibd776q27pxwmb4cs7rcas33z3ovfmfj3sbns2cyjv77d2japn4k4)
In “Pantone® Colour of the Year: A Consumer Review,” poet Momtaza Mehri meditates on greenness as a volatile signifier of ecological collapse, neocolonial violence, and commodity circulation.
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Pantone® Colour of the Year: A Consumer Review • Protean Magazine
In "Pantone® Colour of the Year: A Consumer Review," poet Momtaza Mehri meditates on greenness as a volatile signifier of ecological collapse, neocolonial violence, and commodity circulation.
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July 28, 2026 at 9:41 PM
In “Pantone® Colour of the Year: A Consumer Review,” poet Momtaza Mehri meditates on greenness as a volatile signifier of ecological collapse, neocolonial violence, and commodity circulation.
proteanmag.com/2026/07/26/p...
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In “The Enemies of 1776,” Dylan Saba marks the nation's 250th by examining the long continuity in the U.S.’s genocidal wars on the global frontier—from the Indian Wars, the Philippines, and Vietnam to the Israeli-U.S. genocide in Gaza.
proteanmag.com/2026/07/27/t...
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The Enemies of 1776 • Protean Magazine
In "The Enemies of 1776", Dylan Saba traces the long history of the US's genocidal wars and pacification operations in the global frontier—from the Indian Wars, to the War in Vietnam, to the Israeli-U...
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July 28, 2026 at 2:18 AM
In “The Enemies of 1776,” Dylan Saba marks the nation's 250th by examining the long continuity in the U.S.’s genocidal wars on the global frontier—from the Indian Wars, the Philippines, and Vietnam to the Israeli-U.S. genocide in Gaza.
proteanmag.com/2026/07/27/t...
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July 28, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Andy Hines traces the lines of power between U.S. educational and healthcare institutions. Campuses and corporatized administrations are loci of profit—from leveraging real estate and debt to driving “urban renewal,” redlining, and racist policing.
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Andy Hines traces the lines of power between U.S. educational and healthcare institutions. Campuses and corporatized administrations are loci of profit—from leveraging real estate and debt to driving “urban renewal,” redlining, and racist policing.
proteanmag.com/2022/09/08/t...
The Myth of the Public Good
Andy Hines traces the lines of power between U.S. educational and healthcare institutions. In both, campuses and corporatized administrations are loci of profit—from leveraging real estate and debt…
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July 27, 2026 at 1:01 PM
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Andy Hines traces the lines of power between U.S. educational and healthcare institutions. Campuses and corporatized administrations are loci of profit—from leveraging real estate and debt to driving “urban renewal,” redlining, and racist policing.
proteanmag.com/2022/09/08/t...
Andy Hines traces the lines of power between U.S. educational and healthcare institutions. Campuses and corporatized administrations are loci of profit—from leveraging real estate and debt to driving “urban renewal,” redlining, and racist policing.
proteanmag.com/2022/09/08/t...