RENT STRIKE 2020
A RESOURCE LIST
The World vs. SARS-CoV-2, 4/1
Data show that COVID-19 is now the No. 3 leading cause of daily deaths in the U.S. China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence…
Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of March 29, 2020)
A looming kibble crisis, food stores for tight budgets, and the wisdom of victory gardens.
The World vs. SARS-CoV-2
I said, ‘You know, we don’t have a valid process for replacing House members if we’re all killed by a terrorist attack.’ He said, ‘What do I care? I’ll be dead.’
Class Consciousness for American Doctors
Professionalism is the ideological terrain on which medicine’s culture interacts with its class politics
‘History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’ –James Joyce
Science will come up with solutions
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of March 22, 2020)
The ethics of ordering in, food supply problems, and a return to rationing.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of March 16, 2020)
Sourdough starters made simple, regenerative wheat farming, and the dangers of hamsterkäufe.
Triple-Decker Weekly, 149
Frustration grows in China as face masks compromise facial recognition
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north
I Decide the End
An interview with Elaine Kahn about her new book of poems, Romance or The End
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of February 23, 2020)
Pork rolls, mayonnaise slices, and bug burgers — all in this week’s linkpile.
Cool Women
When the apparently hard-edged rejection of identity betrays a hidden sentimentalism
Banal Brutalities
With no time for tenderness, I see my body as a sack of flesh and little more
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of February 17, 2020)
The virtues of dining solo, human altruism and food, and what does an oyster taste like exactly?
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