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.
Vol. 27 Editors' Note: Money
The editorial note to The New Inquiry Magazine, Vol. 26: Consent
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #140
"Doggerel is a derogatory term for verse considered of little literary value. The word probably derived from dog, suggesting either ugliness, puppyish clumsiness, or unpalatability…
Thank You for Shopping: Customer Loyalty Programs
To thank you for spending money at Sephora, you get the opportunity to spend more money at Sephora.
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #124
If this was a question—a simple prose sentence—it would open outward: in the answer to the question, we would find its wholeness, completion. It would…
You Are Too Much
The Overly Attached Girlfriend's desire isn't oriented towards sex or even a boyfriend; both are just means to maximal intensity of feeling
"This is when things got weird. And ugly."
self-promotion race hustling ideological motivation distasteful silly dumb wrong distasteful shrill misguided frivolous annoying infuriating disingenuous and self-aggrandizing incite this particular riot mess she leaves in her wake cheapened by the ease, and sometimes frivolity
Hungry for Love
With art that hopes to go too far, who gets to ask for forgiveness instead of permission?
Sunday Reading
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(Some Provisional Writing on) Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project"
This is not a poem that
"Performance in Shailja Patel's 'Migritude'"
For whatever reason, I was digging through some old papers (actually, the depths of my inbox) and I came across the notes for a paper…
Consent Mixtape
13 songs about yes, no, and everything between for our March issue
Don't Look Now
Fifty years ago today the New York Times made Kitty Genovese the archetype of urban apathy and violence. Now we know just how wrong they were
The World and What it Isn't: Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names."
Everyone knows that the world is what it is and that men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. What this post presupposes is, maybe it isn't?
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The Tao of Chow
First there is some mutton. Then there is no mutton. Then there is
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