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.
Un(der)known Writers: George Jackson
An excerpt from George Jackson's Soledad Brother.
Stoppage Time
A network rubbernecks its own disaster in real time, but we feel it as always just after and already just elsewhere
Art of the Obituary: Robin Williams
Comedian Chris Gethard remembers Robin WIlliams
Wound Down Inside
Ultraviolence’s suffocated soars frustrate critics’ attempts to feel good about Lana feeling bad
Lessons of Engagement
Cosmology and ethics in Etel Adnan’s poetry
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
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading at the Doctor's? Cute, Sure, but Illegal
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, August 8, 2014
Robot baseball fans, robot sandpipers, robot hitchhikers, robot surgeons
Further Reading
Gary Simmons “Black Chalkboard (Triple Eye Maestro” (1993) via Hirshhorn Museum When TNI asked me if I’d be interested in adding a syllabus to the review…
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?
Art of the Interview: Harun Farocki
An interview with filmmaker, theorist and revolutionary Harun Farocki, who died last week at the age of 70.
Dead Can Dance
Thomas Laqueur’s forthcoming book investigates the continuing life of the dead through a long history of European mourning and remembrance
"Against Literary Passports: the Many Languages of African Literature" (Conference Paper)
The long(er) version of a paper I delivered yesterday at the "From Asmara 2000 to Nairobi 2014: New Horizons and Trends in Africa Languages and…
Vol. 31 Editor's Note: Mourning
Death comes whenever, always in season and always out of season
The Future Weird presents "Remote Control" at MAD! - August 9th at 3 P.M.
At 3PM this Saturday August 9th, THE FUTURE WEIRD will revisit REMOTE CONTROL, a program originally presented at Spectacle Theater, as part of Spectacle's participation…
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