Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
There Are No Accidents
If the structure of the Internet is conspiracy theory, shouldn't net art follow suit?
The Principle of Our Negative Solidarity
A review of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism by Jeremy Gilbert
Bon Appé-teat
Milking a bad dining experience for all it's worth
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 25
Some of the more skeptical out there might begin to wonder why they need advice for an end of time that doesn’t seem to be getting here.
the Empire chest-of-drawers silently protests
His Tobias Mindernickel, a waif-like figure of Dostoyevskyian inspiration, lives in terrible solitude on the top floor of a working-class house, in a wretched room…
Here to Make Friends
Kids are ideal contestants, making little league reality shows better than the adult versions. But what if they don’t want to play by the rules?
The Thief
The appropriation art of Chad Wys
A Compleat To-Do List for the 34-to-56-Year-Old American Woman, as Determined by Ad Placement on Lifetime Television's Premiere of "Flowers in the Attic"
Our vagina dentata has yellowing teeth.
#stopcreating
A guest post by Shia LaBeouf (@TheCampaignBook)
Sunday Reading
Ponies in sweaters are the new cats riding on top of appliances.
Shard Cinema, 1
The application of bullet time to all that exists.
The Quiet Life
Jesse Ball’s new novel, Silence Once Begun, rises above metafiction to read as tragedy
Take a Seat
Bloodsport's crossword puzzle, "Take A Seat"
"Flowers in the Attic" Is the Best Book Ever* And Here Is Why
Given the history of the "female Gothic," it's actually a surprise there isn't a whole lot more brother bangin' going on in YA lit.
Disband West Virginia
Text from my TED talk "West Virginia: Probably Time to Just Cut Our Losses on That One." Will upload video when available.
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