Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
I'm Not a Philosopher (But I Play One in The Movies)
In the first installation of his film column Aspect Ratio, Brandon Harris looks at new movies featuring philosophers Slavoj Žižek and Noam Chomsky
The Viral Self
Ultimately, the only viral content is the self
Extremists in The Mainstream
Max Blumenthal's Goliath finds fascism in Israel, but overlooks the mask it's hiding behind
The Sabotage of Production: A Lecture by Evan Calder Williams @ Bark Room 12/4
The history of sabotage is the history of its hypothetical non-existence, of recurrent attempts to deny that it does or should happen. Barring scattered supporters,…
Chronophilia / Chronophobia
Script and audio for a live performance. Blindfolds not included.
Just Friends
When it comes to friendship, self-help is no substitute for politics
Sunday Reading
When Sunday saw the breadth of its reading, it wept, for there were no more secrets to monopolize.
Straight Men Can Be Bent
An interview with Wayne Koestenbaum about an opera and his new book of essays
Us and Them
If novels are to help us understand 21st century threats like terrorism, late 20th century masculinist realism will need to give way to hysterical realism
How to Waste a Crisis
Philip Mirowski’s Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste seeks to discredit economic explanations of the crisis, but in so doing discounts any possible political alternatives to neoliberalism
The Thick Blue Line
No charges brought against officer. No charges brought against officer. No charges brought against officer.
Data Occupations
Quantified Self is a passionate political “movement” without concrete demands. That should sound familiar
Sunday Reading
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Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 23
As time goes by, knowledge grows and we have to grow with it
Brief note: Have been, and will continue to be, silent here of late due to the final weeks of finishing a dissertation project. I will…
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