Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Storefront Supernatural
The popularity of botanicas point to the failures of the Catholic Church to properly provide for its own
A cloaked drone faces itself down in a mirror
Up at La Furia Umana: a new essay, departing from Joseph Losey's Figures in a landscape toward condominiums, Bourne, raptors, choppers, reverse shots, death from…
Dead and Going to Die
The famous photographs of Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Lewis Powell show modern self-consciousness being born before an indifferent lens.
Sunday Reading
Is Sunday Reading primitive, or just poor?
Book of Lamentations
A new dystopian novel in the classic mode takes the form of a "dictionary of madness"
American History
Is Indian history—or are Indians, for that matter—actually real?
Unbehagen in der Natur
He who treats the world as his own private garden is bound to come a cropper
Found in Translation @ NYU 10/18
A conference about translation and writing. Co-presented by The Graduate Center-City University of New York, Services culturels, Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis, Public Books, The Humanities Initiative-New York University, The New…
Haunted House
The short-lived electronic subgenre witch house lingered in the emotional crawlspace beneath contemporary pop
Interiors - Dial M For Murder
When Dial M for Murder was finally released, audiences and studios had lost interest in 3D...
Andrea Mary Marshall's KING @ Garis & Hahn 10/17
As part of the show SACRED/ICONIC show at Garis & Hahn, join us for Andrea Mary Marshall's performance piece KING. SACRED/ICONIC is a two-person exhibition…
My Soul to Keep
An economy intent on exhausting people has already exhausted everything else
Rhizome Call for Papers and Projects on E-Cigarettes and Vaping Technologies
We’ve been spotting them more and more in the wild, at galleries, house parties, restaurants, parks, various Bloomberg protectorates. Puffs of white and circular neon…
Devils in Red Dress
Though males vastly outnumber females in China, shengnü—“leftover women”—haunt the country’s imagination
Sunday Reading
This is not a post about discovering science. This is not a post about discovering science. This is not a post about discovering science. This is not a post about discovering science.
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