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.
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…
The Silence of the Masses Could Be Social Media
What Baudrillard's concept of the silent masses reveals about obligatory social-media use
Wifey Status
Being a bad bitch on the side might not appeal to fools like you
but not when she was a child
(Jane Bowles, "Everything is Nice")
Selfie-Correction
ABC's upcoming Selfie draws on the perennial fantasy of "fixing" women's self-definition with modesty
Un(der)known Writers: Jane Bowles
An excerpt from Jane Bowles' 1943 novel Two Serious Ladies
Sunday Reading
These white flags are for fun not surrender
Is Genocide Right For You?
Many people have a misconception about genocide, which is not banned by international law, but is strictly regulated so that it can be conducted safely…
We Did It!
Thank you! Because of readers like you we reached our goal
We Did It!
Thank you! Because of readers like you we reached our goal
Texas Stands With Gaza
A selfish statement.
Beauty and (In)Conspicuous Consumption
Are beauty products forms of conspicuous consumption, or of the opposite?
This Week in Art Crime
Graffiti Homer Simpson appears on the walls of the MFA in Boston; A pot activist claims the white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge were to be replaced with a hemp leaf banner; A museum in Jizhou, China's entire collection is forgeries
Terror Painting
George W. Bush, Barney, 2012 (?) Lapata, Humsafar: President George W. Bush with his Scottie, Barney, 2007 Marlene Dumas, The Blindfolded, 2002 Luc Tuymans, Secretary…
RIP Farocki (1944 - 2014)
In the cinema it is as if the world itself wanted to tell us something.
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