Transcript on a Face
Wilson the innocent ghost, Brown the guilty demon
Bail Bloc
Our work on policing and mass incarceration.
Naming Nameless
Gabriella Coleman’s history of the Anonymous collective is as much about her complicity in the group’s attention-seeking tactics as it is about the group itself.
The Carceral State
California gets called “progressive” despite operating one of the world’s largest prison systems.
We Can Be Heroes
By associating itself with the selfish pleasures of visibility, the wearable camera GoPro has staved off criticism for how it enhances surveillance
The Killing Class
To order spatial operations, to command bodies, to keep things moving along, to kill with impunity
Poems From Guantanamo
A new book of poems about Guantanamo Bay detainees raises the prison's specter of placelessness
The Military Industrial Complex Yard Sale
The Pentagon doesn't only give police departments surplus body armor, but also surplus underpants, dish towels, spatulas and dessert spoons
In Defense of Looting
For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting.
Incalculable Loss
The algorithms that make up Big Data distribute complicity for death across the populations they surveil
A Reformist in Hell
Law professor Robert A. Ferguson’s critique of the U.S. prison system misses the point that its purpose is not rehabilitation but civic death
Black Life, Annotated
Alice Goffman's critically acclaimed ethnography On The Run is another story about a white lady come to study young black men. Who thought this was a good idea?
The Silence of the Masses Could Be Social Media
What Baudrillard's concept of the silent masses reveals about obligatory social-media use
"Surveillant anxiety" and exceptional conformity
Potential problems with a political strategy of desubjectivation
The Anxieties of Big Data
What does the lived reality of big data feel like?
Don't Look Now
Fifty years ago today the New York Times made Kitty Genovese the archetype of urban apathy and violence. Now we know just how wrong they were
The Thick Blue Line
No charges against police officer. No charges against police officer. No charges against police officer.