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.
Sunday Reading
We've got to do something.
Stage Boundary Songs
A mixtape inspired by The Act of Killing
No Choice but Freedom
Markets enact social control while making it seem to disappear
M and A
A scene performed in tandem with an algorithmic trading model created by a Blackstone group investment banker
America is Hungry, Let's Eat
We can do better. This is only the beginning.
Me Meme
Virality and the end of self-expression
Hyperreality Bites
We'll all float on okay
No Purchase Necessary
Is liking brands ironically on social media a form of click fraud?
Sunday Reading
PLEASE DO NOT USE FILLED WITH BEES
"It Continues Not To End": Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project
The openness of the form reflects the refusal of the wound to close on its own: each poem is an instant in time, but they do not resolve into a story, only an interminable unresolved and plural present.
The Paper Chase
Online cryptocurrencies are all the rage, but other alternate money systems can do more than help you hide
Sabotage Talk #3: Space, or, Birds too stuffed with Polynices' corpse to augur worth a damn
"Our epoch can at least be sure of one thing: it will not go down peacefully."
Ranked Amateurs
In this month's installment of Aspect Ratio, Brandon looks at the new anti-NCAA documentary Schooled and the classic college basketball corruption movie Blue Chips
Huw Lemmey Goes Sunbathing
Contributor Huw Lemmey's tale of flippant Ivy Leaguers in countries exploding with the Eurozone Debt Crisis protests, sweaty and horny and looking for a compatible…
Which Briefcase Full of Money Are You?
All cinematic briefcases full of money are the same, but in different ways. Take this quiz and find out which one you are!
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