Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Black Liberation Theory: Insurgent Philosophy & the Black Radical Legacy @ Brecht Forum
In this class participants will explore how racism makes the very assertion of human agency by Black people within the context of a western imperialist…
Red Holidays of Genius
The Italian Futurists' marriage of man and machine was a feast for the senses
Some of This Actually Happened
American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street, in and out of history
Robots on an Escalator
Ideas inspired by Elisa Gabbert's The Self Unstable
Seeing Things
A review of At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen by Shawn Michelle Smith
Sunday Reading
Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand!
Woody Allen’s Good Name
Until it is proven otherwise, beyond a reasonable doubt, it’s important to extend the presumption of innocence to Dylan Farrow, and presume that she is not guilty of the crime of lying.
The Thick Blue Line
No charges against police officer. No charges against police officer. No charges against police officer.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The NFL has used empiricism’s tenets to mystify the link between concussions and head injury. But “science” can’t defeat “Mom logic”
Together We Are None
Wow, at the BRIC Arts & Media House in Brooklyn, retells the tale of Milli Vanilli’s rise and fall as multimedia opera
Return to Sender
When gay communist Didier Eribon came out of the closet, it wasn't as a man gay or a communist. The French sociologist came out as working-class
Prize Dog Runs Amuck And Dies of Shame
Why couldn't J.P. Morgan's prize bulldog bear to go on?
Games of Truth
Social media serve as a staging ground for wars of authenticity
Kill Your Martyrs
image by imp kerr, adapted from Many of us have a habit of being overly credulous to stories that flatter our biases When I was…
Sunday Reading
We should all agree that Sunday lessons, if there must be Sunday lessons, should be made light, interesting, and attractive.
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