Ismail Ibrahim
Pacific | Fiction
Ismail Ibrahim
Michel was beautiful, and by the time he arrived at the center, I’d been in there just long enough that I’d pissed out whatever remnant chemicals were making my situation bearable. The way he said it — California, dragging the vowels out of the N — was so sonorous and vast that I knew going there with him was the obvious solution to my problems. It felt as though the...
A Nicely Situated Ideal | On the Public Sphere
Edward Ongweso Jr, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim, Madeleine Baker, Megan Marz, Noelle Bodick, Sam Adler-Bell, Sarah Brouillette, Tarpley Hitt
When the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas died in mid-March, the contentious debates about his ideas and influence that had stalked his career reappeared in posthumous assessments. Some recognized Habermas’s role in keeping Frankfurt School critical theory alive and defending the values of “democratically organized social life,” as Matt McManus wrote in Jacobin, against reactionaries. Others condemned Habermas’s own rightward drift, especially his “long history of being deliberately unquestioning of Israel,”...
Thousands of Voices
Ismail Ibrahim
The world is full of forces that want you to believe the physical world is a problem to overcome — food delivery apps, cul-de-sac developers, automobile manufacturers, vitamin-hawking podcasters. Always the drive toward greater convenience, more atomization, a sense of security so total we forget the vulnerability of our flesh. But there’s also always the nagging proof that we’re interconnected. A virus, say. Six years ago, we stayed inside for...
