Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
As Goes Naples
The disastrous, corrupt "recovery" of war-shattered Naples in Curzio Malaparte's The Skin reflects the rot at the core of the European peace
Teaching While Black
If race is a construct, gender is a construct, and teaching is a performative act, where and how do I exist in the classroom as a real black woman?
Sunday Reading
If there is Sunday, Reading will come.
Reason Displaces All Love
Libidinal economizing in the early Soviet Union
Cat Gut
9 lives meet 32 teeth
Dating in the Expanded Field
Dating has left behind the modernist binaries that once defined it. To survey the field we now face, we need a map.
A Change of Heart
H8's crossword puzzle
Kill the Philosopher in Your Head
Althusserianism has always been a Marxism for those who prefer their class struggle as philosophy
Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
The author and parenting educator behind Mean Girls talks sex, drugs, and her new book on boys
Sunday Reading
What time is Sunday between Bahrain and Bangalore?
There is no such thing as “The Court of Public Opinion” (but maybe there should be).
There is no such thing as “The Court of Public Opinion.”
A Cute Idea
Ryan Trecartin's films defamiliarize contemporary culture without casting explicit judgment
Hate Sinks
The facade of liberal democracy only stays clean by putting young women in hate’s way
Vol. 25 Editors' Note: H8
“Those who hate you can’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself,” said not Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi but that gentle soul Richard Nixon...
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