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.
Video of sabotage talk n. 2 (booby traps, leaked prison plans, and cunning beasts)
For those interested who couldn't make it, here is the video of my talk (starting at 8'40") on Monday on time and sabotage. As often…
Of Being Numerous
We have not consented to our own constant surveillance, even if the way we live has produced it
The Risks of Overreporting
Overreporting extreme aesthetic treatments allows us to put distance between our own beauty work and beauty work that “crosses the line.”
I'm So In!
Consent's crossword puzzle
What Happens in Girls Club
How one teacher stopped worrying and learned to love mean girls
History Made Queasy
A fresh look at rotten food's influence on world events
Escape Velocity
When we're used to traveling at the speed of data, what do passenger jets have left to offer?
A Game Is Being Beaten
The trend in video game design is to comment on violence by asking players to perform violence. But could there be pleasure in performing consent?
Sunday Reading
Pretty cool video about Detroit's business opportunitys
Ambitious Conditions: Taiye Selasi's "Ghana Must Go"
“Ambitious” is a back-handed criticism, a way of positioning Selasi as a promising writer who had written a flawed first novel.
Short Circuit
Despite longer odds and smaller payoffs, America produces more independent filmmakers every year. What the hell are they thinking?
they built for eternity
Yesteryear's avowed goodness of firms with "special" relationships to Anglo-America parallels with today's avowed goodness of institutions with "special" relationships to art
Consciously or Unconsciously
Is the infamous white-supremacist novel The Turner Diaries a real threat, or just a shitty book for shitty people?
The Sabotage of Time
For those in NYC, I'll be giving the next talk in my series on sabotage at this coming Monday, March 10th. (For those not, it'll…
Vol. 26 Editors' Note: Consent
The editorial note to The New Inquiry Magazine, Vol. 26: Consent
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