Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
The Bureaucracy of Us
Even when members of a family know what their bond means to them, they have no idea what it means to the state.
The World Hair Cup
It ain't called the beautiful game for nothing.
Face Me, I Face You
Queen Elizabeth I went global by pioneering the slave trade
Un(der)seen Cinema: Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera revealed how revolution reshaped the world, and in reflecting that revolutionary world, intensified it.
Scream Queens
What do we hear when a woman screams for the camera?
Sunday Reading
A Grad Unified Field Theory of Dadcialism
Yasssss, Kween!
An interview with Jarvis Derrell, the man behind @shehashadit on Instagram
The Scent(s) of a Woman
"The study of wine—which shares a focus on smell and descriptive language—has a well-documented history and broad appeal: People buy wine magazines, go on wine tours. Perfume doesn’t have that kind of cachet." Guest post by Mary Mann.
The "Sharing" Economy
A review of What's Mine Is Yours and other ideas about the sharing economy scam
Editors' Note, Vol. 29: Queens
A queen stands alone, fixed in place, with her subjects arrayed around her. This means she is also outnumbered.
#NotAllPublic, Heartburn, Twitter
Burping up air.
Weird Corporate Twitter
Just as corporations have become “persons” in law, they have also become “persons” on social media? Why do we find this funny?
Boy 2 Man
Richard Linklater's new movie Boyhood is a formal accomplishment and a narrative hazard
Sunday Reading
Sunday Vinagrette
Coming to Las Vegas
In Chris Abani's new novel The Secret History of Las Vegas, universality is in the particular and nothing stays where it's supposed to
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