Testing Beyond Control
In search of support, not surveillance
Bail Bloc
Our work on policing and mass incarceration.
Surplus Rebellions
An excerpt from "Riot. Strile. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings" by Joshua Clover
Surveillance notes
It's not monolithic
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.”
The Black and Blue Line
South Africa’s turn to untrained black constables to maintain order as apartheid crumbled reveals the inherent limitations of community policing
My Own Private Detroit
Private policing in the Motor City
Blue Skies
Body camera manufacturers see profit in the “cop cloud”
The Algorithm and the Watchtower
The form of power that "Big Data" employs is not so much panoptic as it is pan-analytic
Sci-Fi Crime Drama With A Strong Black Lead
A new crime investigation technology generates suspect sketches from genetic material left at the scene, but this big data tool is based on old racialism
Summer Heat
History shows police violence against Black people is intractable. What should we do? Quite simply, we must end the police.
Counterproductive
America ceased to understand black Americans as "productive," and it has never stopped blaming them for this.
Towards a Black Muslim Ontology of Resistance
Anti-blackness and Islamophobia structure American Black Muslim subjects through opposing regimes of identity and visibility
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
The Collection and the Cloud
In the future, will platforms own our pasts?
Scary Negroes with Guns
The imaginary guns that white people perceive in black hands reveal a longstanding fear of black resistance
Black Arts Boomerang
In the current movement against white supremacy and the police we can see the beginnings of a new Black Arts Movement