Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Nessuna Torno Indietro - 1938, 2025
Once banned by Mussolini, Alba De Céspedes' debut novel, There’s No Turning Back (Nessuna Torno Indietro, 1938), is out now under a new translation by Ann Goldstein, best known for her translations of Elena Ferrante's novels.
New Neighbor, Who's This?
The sitcom trope of the intrusive neighbor isn't required in an era that treats exclusion as a social necessity
Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye
a dispatch from Dahye, published in collaboration with the New York War Crimes
Health Equity Capture
How the weight-loss industry Uses Black celebrity in the Ozempic era
AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Seoul to Squeeze
Speculative capital will soon destroy one of the South Korean capital’s most vibrant and diverse working-class neighborhoods.
Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim
In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim uses primary documents to reveal the true costs of American art and the instutions built in its name.
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
One Year
October 7, 2024—Today, we can expect a parade of treacly sycophantism, brazen sociopathy, and humanist admonishment. They write for their mark, the reader they assume…
World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili
A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.
Some Country for Some Women
As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.
Tiktok LLM
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
The Sentimentality of Evil
The Zone of Interest can be understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and domestic labor.
The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence
How The University of Arizona is entwined with the Genocide Economy
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