Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading does not save daylight time. Sunday Reading is the source of all illumination.
Charity Assets
Pierre Omidyar’s journalistic venture is another of his efforts to fuse philanthropy with profit
Cluster Mag Halloween Party @ Steel Drumz 11/1
(??)?// ?(???`)? // (????)? HEY. The PARTIES issue is out October 15!! Also: Halloween, aka the best holiday. So we’ve rented out a big warehouse…
Celluloid Coven
An oral history of watching the 1996 teen-witch movie The Craft
Spirits in the Material World
A helping of Halloween heebie-jeebies from The Ghosterity Kitchen
Timothy Mitchell and Alberto Toscano @ e-flux 10/31
"LtG", graphic materials for exhibition events, Pedro Neves Marques and Mariana Silva, 2013. In his book Carbon Democracy (Verso, 2011), Timothy Mitchell traces the history of oil from…
Come Down With Fire
The overlooked feminism of Ronnie James Dio
Untitled (From a Journal Kept in Tehran)
In Esfehan, a little girl who lost her mother stood next to a soldiers’ barrack. With one wet eye toward the uniformed guards behind her, she yelled, “I am scared of the police. I am scared of the police!”
The Witch of the Woodlands
Robin the "Cobler," as punishment for his lecherous ways, is turned into a variety of animals before being transformed back into a man
"Fractals" by Joanna Walsh: Short Story and Giveaway
"A friend told me to buy a red dress in Paris because I am leaving my husband."
Emerging Markets of Mistaken Virtual Identity
The most honest detritus assumes no particular identity at all, just the mere reassurance that the e-recipient is ‘alive.’
The Stoop and the Street
In trying to foster a sense of feminist community, Suzanne Lacy’s art performance “Between the Door and the Street” revealed some of the structures, forces, and blind spots that fracture it
Sunday Reading
Nothing to lose but the links of our chain that we forged in life. From our hangovers to yours. Break hearts, not links.
Long Live Said
On September 27, TNI co-sponsored the one-day conference "Said is dead. Long live Said!" at City College that marked a decade since Edward Said's passing. Collected here are some of the talks, graciously provided by the speakers and organizers
The Last Witch Hunter
If witches didn't exist, early 20th century reverend Montague Summers would have had to invent them
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