Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
In Space No One Can Hear You Spew
Through the scrim of puke, the infinite is Ecto Cooler.
Black Metal Is Sublime
In their propensity for corpse paint and murder, bands like Bathory and Gorgoroth are the unlikely fulfillment of Romantic ideals: absolute inwardness turned outward
Sparkle, Shirley, Sparkle!
An orphaned moppet in pursuit of a daddy, a pet in search of a warm lap, no one is more a child than Shirley Temple losing value
Sunday Reading
Now with a special set of Congo links kindly provided by Ben Affleck
Body Mass Index
When Sandra Bullock undresses in Gravity, she reveals less a body than a machine
A Saudi Arabia Reader
American imperialism occupied the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, exploited our soil, set up the Dhahran Air Base where atomic bombs are stored
Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!
The '80s hardcore band Discharge played fast, but they couldn't keep up with history
The Bitter Women of Japanese Noir
Modern Japanese crime thrillers give a seamy voice to societal discontent
Romancing the Archive
A new Trinidadian novel tries a new approach to the traditionally vexed Carribean relationship to history
Everybody's Doing It
Peer pressure has dissipated since its ’90s heyday, but the adolescent flat world is harder to navigate
Sunday Reading
Now that the Canadians that walk silently among us have been tricked into revealing themselves, let the revolution begin
None of This Is Written By Me
"My thinking has evolved on this question"
Eminent Domain
The .art generic top-level domain threatens to undermine the gallery system — if curators don't get it first
Beyond Avant-Garde
If we are born artists, we have to learn to be spectators
Next Year in Tehran
An Iranian intellectual's trip to Israel in the 1960s revealed the strange appeal of secular republicanism to religious ethno-supremacists.
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