Weekly Roundup | April 5, 2026
Another Sunday, another roundup! There're lots of celebrations today, from Ancestors Day to National Deep-Dish Pizza Day, alongside (the potentially obvious) Easter. This week, we've started to explore the world of visual art with an essay on Artemisia Gentileschi.
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Art and the Revolution
What Artemisia Gentileschi Teaches Us About Critiquing Power Through “Radical” Art
Dip discusses the ways that Artemisia Gentileschi’s paintings exemplify resistance to domination so well that it turns the canvas into a refusal–while grappling with the impotence of such a “powerful” move.
Chaos and Conviviality
Marginalia
Resources to dive deeper on the topics of the week.
- If talking about video games is a bit remote for some folks, talking about visual artists from hundreds of years ago is probably much more so. But! It's an interesting area to talk about, given the ways that it encourages interpretation and discussion. Three areas that can be explored more deeply are all under the category of "art history": the mainstream takes, the anarchist takes, and the Marxist takes. They all provide different things, but the main benefit is being able to look at art on the wall or a screen and not be completely stumped. For the mainstream, I recommend reading Smarthistory's "The Early Modern era," starting with the 15th century. For the anarchist takes, a great start is Josh MacPhee's and Erik Reuand's (eds.) Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority. For the Marxist takes, I'd start with Marxism and the History of Art, edited by Andrew Hemingway.
Other Stories Worth Knowing
News that we didn't focus on, and worthwhile angles that we missed.
- "We Could Not Breathe Inside Those Containers" RSF's Systematic Detention, Torture and Extortion in North Darfur
- Some media criticism from Dip's personal blog: The Four Horsemen of Bullshit Cultural Production
- Four things we’d need to put data centers in space
- Back Against the Wall
- What Happened to the SPLC—and Me
- A brief history of the Israeli nuclear program, the open secret at the heart of the Iran war
- Nasa’s Orion spaceship four days into Artemis II mission: in pictures
- ICE Presence Persists in Chicago as Raids Shift to Quieter Tactics
- The Texas Data Center Rebellion Has Begun
- This Week in Africa
- Internal Colonialism and the Reproduction of Capital
- Angola haiku
- Here's what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic's plans
- From steelworkers to care workers
- The Price of War
