The Sonic Episteme
To use sound as a tool for theorizing and realizing a more just world, we can’t merely reform Western modernity; we must do something else entirely
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
Dreaming of NAFTA
Tejano star Selena represented the cultural promise of a more open U.S. Mexico border. Her death presaged the ultimate fate of that dream.
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
To turn the U.S.-Mexico border into the Border, America had to erase its Caribbean history
The Sonic Episteme
To use sound as a tool for theorizing and realizing a more just world, we can’t merely reform Western modernity; we must do something else entirely
Triple-Decker Weekly, 148
Insufficient sleep lowers lifespan, but it means you spend more hours awake per day... could outweigh dying sooner?
You Make Me Swoon
An edited excerpt from We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 13, 2019)
Taste-based labeling, ghost kitchens, and microplastic in our food.
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide
On Heteropessimism
Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem.
Vol. 72 Editors’ Note: Bad Vibes
A rough cut of emotion and body language, what we might one day call “our affective commons”
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 6, 2019)
Guinea pig ice cream, the origins of bacon for breakfast, and the return of scurvy.
Summertime Selves (On Professionalization)
The summertime self discloses the logic of the utopian university fantasy: Probably never are we more of it than when we think we’re outside of it.
So Many Secrets
A roundtable on cultural organizing in New York City
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of September 29, 2019)
De-stigmatizing the right to food, eating the whole buffalo fish, and learning to love ugly produce.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of September 22, 2019)
Munching on sea urchins, reducing food waste in favelas, and making the case for farming.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of September 16, 2019)
Cancer-fighting fungi, food hacks gone wrong, and high cholesterol in fast-food-eating crows.
Triple-Decker Weekly, 147
Scores of children born through artificial insemination have learned from DNA tests that their biological fathers were the doctors who performed the procedure
Acta del Desastre
El levantamiento de Puerto Rico y la Instrumentalización de Lin-Manuel Miranda