The myth of Mexico’s first indigenous mother holds that her betrayal marked all her descendants as bastards, but the real culprit has always been empire.

The ocean archive catalogues the ways we have been laid to waste and have wasted.

America's rigid racial categories erase more fluid forms of Indigenous self-identification.

The bildungsroman as living historical document.

If Global Fishing Watch is unlikely to be used by ordinary citizens of the countries most affected by illegal fishing, why is it marketed like a neighborhood watch tool?

A brief history of the lead poisoning epidemic in St. Louis and a question about its future.

A new book plumbs the history and ideology behind the State Department's propaganda efforts in Middle Eastern media, and the resistance it provokes.

A politics of holding water is central to struggles around kinmaking, including reproductive justice, migrant solidarity, and indigenous sovereignty

In an exclusive conversation, surveillance scholar Simone Browne and artist Zach Blas critique various forms of “control diagrams” and imagine a new commons in the space between the Internet’s network nodes.<

Slavery suffuses our present-day environment in an afterlife called the weather. An excerpt from In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Duke University Press, November 2016.

An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor

If it doesn't catch, then let it burn.

As the world's imperial powers unify against Syrians, we offer suggestions for how those in the West can demonstrate solidarity with the besieged.

Silicon Valley futurists plan to live forever by harvesting both the labor and the body parts of the working class.

The algorithm is your new boss and the factory is everywhere.

Measuring our bodies against the reluctant microbiome metaphor.