Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Un(der)seen Cinema: Mind Control Made Easy
Mind Control Made Easy is like an art-video anti-fascist manual, teaching you through critique and reproduction the techniques of cult think.
Out of Sight
The Internet delivered on its promise of community for blind people, but accessibility is easy to overlook.
Die 4 U
Lana Del Rey’s sound is nostalgia for an old lie
Sunday Reading
I regret that I have only one thinkpiece to give for my country.
A Translation of Waly Salomão's "Jet-Lagged Poem"
Is it day? Is it morning? Is it evening? Is it night? Sleeping? Awaking? Somnambulent?
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, July 25, 2014
Robots at work, robots at work in your home, robots at work on a construction site, massive giant robot dragons, just another batch of wonderful safe definitely not genocide-inclined robots
Vernacular Criticism
The most interesting place to read about museums is Yelp
Trophy Season
Despite what you've heard, not every kid gets a trophy. But why not?
if these adjectives are synonyms of ‘enemy’
From a friend who translated this endlessly contemporary work: "One shouldn’t be too generous with certain adversaries. Against those who without disgust tolerated reading or listening to…
The Art of the Interview: Huey Newton
Huey Newton is interviewed on William Buckley's Firing Line
The End of the World as We Know It
Ancient Apocalypse films use the past to project a reactionary present into the future
The Fake as More
Lana’s look is not to make it look easy
Un(der)known Writers: Frank B. Wilderson, III
An excerpt from Frank B. Wilderson, III's Incognegro, a "memoir of exile & Apartheid"
The Journalist and the Suicide
A lot is staked on viewing suicidal or violent veterans as crazy.
Sunday Reading
The Late Sunday Reading
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