Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian
For María Lugones
‘Smoking doesn’t kill.’ –Mike Pence
Research says farts can be released through your breath if you hold them in
‘The sea has neither meaning nor pity.’ –Chekhov
Balling out of control
An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang
Parrots removed from UK wildlife park after they started swearing at customers
Episode One: All The Factory’s A Stage
But it was not capitalism alone that determined the workers’ social life both in the factory and the colony.
The Art of the One-Word Poem
When we lose weight, where does it go?
The Revolution Post-Explosion
A Letter From Beirut
Warning
A Letter From Minneapolis
Woman With a Weapon-Camera
On the work of Sarah Maldoror
First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
Hindu nationalism is the modality in which the crisis of postcolonial capitalism is lived.
Dynamics of intentional and unintentional interpersonal coordination
Lego piece falls out of New Zealand boy's nose after being stuck for two years
The Contagious Assembly
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
The second wave began in the second half of August
The most powerful predictors of relationship quality are the characteristics of the relationship itself — the life dynamic you build with your person
Lunch on the Grass
Much of what made life pleasurable is now gone. We must seek out what remains.
Bitter Buttons and Other Backyard Weeds
Tansy is a lovely plant in its way — enough, anyway, to tempt me to take some of it home. But then I remind myself of its checkered past.
Life During Wartime
Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
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