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.
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Manufactured Response
I spent most of my life trying to Americanize myself, but all of that rebelliousness melted away when the earthquake hit
Disgorge the Cash
Companies used to borrow in the markets as a last resort for financing investment in their business. Now it’s a front for shareholder giveaways
Sunday Reading
You can't spell "Easter" without "Quetzalcoatl"
Evening Walk
It is always strange to be out in Sunset Park at night and feel it so powerfully like a setting from Love in the Time of Cholera.
Frozen Dinners
Photograph from Roald Amundsen's The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 (1913) I reviewed two books on Antarctic…
The Art of Antarctic Cooking
It's a dog-eat-dog world down there at the South Pole
Get the Balance Right
A new biography of Walter Benjamin stumbles on the problem his writing addressed: how to write history without taking the victor’s perspective
The Postcapital Economy
China’s command-like economy may be better suited to cope with technologically driven abundance
Dadventure
No justice for Rufio
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #47
I want to re-visit Witness #47, which gets at the core of what, for me, the ICC Witness Project is doing: The poem begins…
In a Mirror, Darkly
A review of Helen Oyeyemi's novel Boy, Snow, Bird
We Have Met the Enemy
To find the villainous creditor class, we only have to look in the mirror. A review of Andrew Ross's Creditocracy
Sunday Reading
Jacob Remes: A post-mortem on last week's Quebec election Who Gets to Decide if Noah is Biblical? (see also Noah as quintessentially Jewish) The Kill List "The genocide is…
Reading the ICC Witness Project: About Witness #26 and #47
What is the ICC Witness Project "About"? If you give the “About” page no more than a cursory reading, the ICC Witness Project is essentially…
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