States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America’s Punishment System

Jason E. Smith lives in Los Angeles and writes primarily about art and politics. He is the author of Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation, and frequently contributes to the Field Notes section of The Brooklyn Rail.

Jason E. Smith

Abolition After the George Floyd Rebellion: On Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti’s “States of Incarceration”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Jason E. Smith lives in Los Angeles and writes primarily about art and politics. He is the author of Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation, and frequently contributes to the Field Notes section of The Brooklyn Rail.

Jason E. Smith

Articles

Abolition After the George Floyd Rebellion: On Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti’s “States of Incarceration”