Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Elsewhere: An Evening of Escape @ ISSUE Project Room 11/12
Van Alen Institute is pleased to present an evening of performances, talks, and reflections to celebrate the launch of Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape, an…
Placebos and Noisy Bodies
When self-medication is an economic necessity, it helps to believe in magic pills
Sunday Reading
The Anagram for Sunday Reading is a Cabana Ebb Titbit Jotter Musket a Aquaplane Flankers Hunted a Cracklier Mined Fermium.
The Writing Cure
The relief of telling the truth about oneself must compete with the challenge of finding an audience to share it with
The Power of Glamour
"Glamour only works when it can tap preexisting discontent, giving otherwise inchoate longings an object of focus": A look at Virginia Postrel's "The Power of Glamour"
Secret Admirer #4 @ Harbor Gallery 11/7
Secret Admirer is a reading with a mystery curator whose name is revealed at the end. This edition features readers Malcolm Harris, Sarah Nicole Prickett,…
Vol. 22 Editors' Note: Self-Help
Happiness, fitness, long-life, wisdom, creativity: all these things have been just within reach since Marcus Aurelius. Yet, somehow, we don’t seem to be getting any better...
Hex Before Marriage
Turning on the charm used to mean something quite different
Talk & Book Signing with Joël Dicker @ fi:af 11/4
Meet Joël Dicker, a 27-year-old Swiss sensation whose second book, La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Quebert kicked Fifty Shades of Grey off the bestseller list of Amazon.fr, and has…
News From Nowhere
Van den Berg’s intricately plotted stories are narrative nonplaces, glutted with information and drift. A review of The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
Games of Truth
Foucault's late lectures shed light on how social media serves as a realm for staging wars of authenticity
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
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