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.
Christian Marclay Goes to Bollywood
The artist’s supercut of Indian films’ use of Switzerland is a whitewash
Un(der)seen Cinema: La Commune
Simultaneously a reenactment of the Paris Commune and a political documentary about the collective process of the reenactment's production
Dutch Treat
Enlightened government, humane ethics, and bustling trade meant that even the lowliest in the Low Countries shared in the high times
Insuring the Dead
Inside the business of corpse-repatriation insurance
A Commencement Address from Jonathan Edwards
The bow of economic wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string.
Un(der)known Writers: Elaine Kraf
An excerpt from Elaine Kraf's The Princess of 72nd Street
Future Islands
If this is what our US-China future portends, how can we change it?
Sunday Reading
marveled that our paths had crossed in the heart of remote, rural India
Critical Moments: The Birth of the Hack
Renata Adler was not impressed by Pauline Kael's essay collection When the Lights Go Down
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
To turn the U.S.-Mexico border into the Border, America had to erase its Caribbean history
Paranoia at the Disco
Once largely derided as shallow, faddish consumerist music, disco has been reappraised as the stifled sounds of cultural liberation. Of course, it could always be both.
Un(der)seen Cinema: Born in Flames
Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames shows just how short "we'll fix it after the revolution" falls.
The Magnetic North
Female clairvoyants in the 19th century used their powers to traverse class as well as distance
Permission Slips
Social media have made the street-photographer ethic of seizing moments without consent seem unsustainable
My Gay Shame, or, How Patriarchy Stole Sex
I wanted my own desire and not to be only desire’s object.
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