Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
The Art of the Rebuttal: Frederick Douglass
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."
This Week in Art Crime
A vigilante white-washes a famous piece of street art; A professor is ejected for crowd-surfing at a classical recital; ARCA (the Association for Research into Crimes against Art) held its annual Art Crime conference in Central Italy
Narrative of Fragments
The modern renaissance of the lyric essay occurs in an age distinguished by increasingly interrupted experience
Stone-Age Nostalgia
The deep history of fashionable forgetting
Noshing with Nomads
Wandering peoples knew no distinction between home-cooked dinners and meals "on the go"
Black President
By cramming two blockbusters into a single screen, J Hoberman made White House Butler Down, the ultimate in late-Obama cinema
The Party's Girls and Party Girls: Negotiating Beauty in the Soviet Union
The state might have said that Soviet citizens were valued on their contributions to socialist ideals, not their gender and appearance. Women knew otherwise. By guest blogger Alana Massey
Canceled Message (Part Two)
Changing color in a dark, oceanic cave, like a private amphibian
Sorry, Ladies: No World Hair Cup for Women
The thoroughly boring hair of female athletes.
Un(der)seen Cinema: Experiments in Terror
Horror makes a natural ally with film and video art.
Sunday Reading
Be sure to click on the links that aren't there.
Hello, Round of 16; Farewell, Hair We've Left Behind
After weeks of grueling follicular play, the Group Stage of the World Hair Cup has ended. Now, what you've been waiting for: the results. (Click for…
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, June 27, 2014
The great thing about robots is how they're all so nice and cuddly
Destroy All Monsters
The original Godzilla plays out the struggle between two of post-war Japan's major political tendencies: a revolutionary critique of modernity against a victimized anti-historical Japanese nationalism.
Seeing Stars
Schadenfreude and sadism emerge as the real face of celebration.
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