AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
#JustineHasLanded
...the more we make it about her—thereby transforming this event from which her absence was the crucial thing—the more we can only become sympathetic, or at least less cruel: if she’s a person, she’s a flawed person, yes, but she’s not the racist caricature she became in our imaginations.
Holiday Spirits High and Low
What the Dickens gets into some people at Christmas?
Transnational American Studies @ American University of Beirut 1/6-9
In Fall 2013 the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University Beirut celebrates its tenth anniversary and initiates its new MA program…
Very Serious Populists
The point of voting systems is not to highlight the best content but to build and maintain a hegemonic discourse
The White Man's Burden
If male artist Chris Burden didn't exist, the New Museum had to invent him
Field Notes
When a 1952 flight scheduled for New York crashed in the Amazon Rainforest, it kicked off a race to find survivors between a PanAm exec, a Brazilian governor, and a Florida psychic
The Floral Is the Political
An interview with Iranian artist Shirin Neshat
Interiors - Annie Hall
Woody Allen has always been interested in spatial configurations within his frames; known for occasionally having his characters walk outside the frame...
Room to Despair
In the U.K., capital’s casualties are losing even the space to go mad
Sunday Reading
Inside, joining in cigarette decide to prove an on and on
All Presidents
The Nelson Mandela that Barack Obama remembers seems to have not done a great many things.
Commies for Christ
In Giorgio Agamben's The Highest Poverty, the monastery and the non-law of monastic codes suggest an alternative approach to life in late capitalism
Everything Is a Target
An interview of physicist and filmmaker Peter Galison by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
You're Just Jelly
In which I take an episode of "South Park" about digital photo editing far too seriously.
Splay Attention
I don’t think it’s bad when artists treat me as if I’m there. In fact, I’m more sympathetic to those who do. Because I am.
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