Michael McCanne

Jan 22, 2025 | dissentmagazine.org | Gerry Canavan |Michael McCanne |Dan Sinykin

The Art of Obstruction A new art project uses the legal system of mineral rights as a means to block oil and gas extraction. All that Dissipates Must Descend In her short stories, Ottessa Moshfegh chronicles downward mobility on the part of the privileged—and in so doing exposes their unfitness to rule, if not to exist.