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.
Jacqueline Madrano, Retired Homemaker and Volunteer, San Antonio
On dressing well as a military wife abroad: "We wanted to show the Japanese that we were nice people after the war."
Westgate: Blowback
The innocent were warned.
Epistemology Kills
The appeal of a murder is knowing that it has happened to someone else
1983 - 1962
The dead occasionally twitch and so it goes with the cinema…
Syria_ebooks
The senators are there to promote economic investment in the country.
Unheard Of! @ The Bowery Poetry Club 9/29
A series of threatened literatures from around the world in 10 parts. Our debut installment presents poetry and oral literature in 5 languages of Indonesia.…
Swarovski Kristallnacht
Fashion as an industry suffers from the same authenticity and credibility crises as punk, and both have sought remedies in the same fascistic tropes
Secondary Modern
Art’s function is to be functionless, to refuse to serve the structuring of hierarchies
Society of The Spectacle @ Light Industry 9/24
The reception of Guy Debord’s work has long positioned him foremost as a theorist and political writer, and only secondarily as a filmmaker, but in…
Pray for Chic
"To be a truly intoxicating woman you must have a backbone, good morals, good intentions, and a good whip." The work and wisdom of artist Andrea Mary Marshall
Sunday Reading
The rain has beaten me/ And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives/ I shall go beyond and rest.
Working With Kids
What it's like when your coworkers outgrow you every year
Confectionery Curriculum
Intellectual development is no cakewalk, but its rewards are sweet
PRISM Breakup @ Eyebeam 10/4-6
PRISM Breakup is a series of art and technology events dedicated to exploring and providing forms of protection from surveillance. This event came about in…
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 21
It doesn’t always help to be intelligible. Sometimes a healthy lack of lucidity, with just a soupçon of incoherence, can help one achieve the proper mindset to get where we want to be.
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