Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Some covert wonder
The fucking quinoa was on fire.
Digital Runways, Paper Dolls
We know that fashion shows are overwhelmingly white. What about virtual fashion shows?
Interiors - A Single Man
A Single Man starts and ends inside George’s house, and much of the film is set within the interior spaces. The house is a John Lautner home, the Schaffer Residence, which was designed in 1949 for the parents of an assistant...
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
Author and grouchy old man Jonathan Franzen used Karl Kraus to inspire his latest technophobe polemic. But what if he had turned to I Love Dick author Chris Kraus instead? On the Internet, anything is possible.
Sunday Reading
To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction, yet to be undeterred in our determination to face these forces, to fight to change their world and make it our own."
Reparative compulsions
How the intermittent rewards of social media blissfully annihilate the self
I ♥ Ⓐ
An interview with Occupy Wall Street chronicler and author of the new book "Thank You, Anarchy," Nathan Schneider
The Other Foot
The ideal of authenticity established a boundary between the self and a complete surrender to capitalism; fashion bloggers live on both sides of the border
You're Not Pretty Enough
I mean, Bon Jovi is pretty enough, but that's beside the point.
Too Sexy for My Shirts
From anti-bombardment balloon wear to the proto-hipster 16th century mercenaries, we take a stroll down time's catwalk
Burning Bridges @ n+1 9/13
A reading with Cecilia K Corrigan, Ian Hatcher, Lanny Jordan Jackson, and our own Sarah Nicole Prickett. Hosted by The Claudius App. Friday, Sept 13 n+1 68 Jay St.…
The White Review No. 8 Release @ McNally Jackson 9/11
Please join us for the US launch of The White Review No. 8 at McNally Jackson bookshop, New York on 11 September 2013. To mark…
One-Dimensional Woman
It’s hard to believe in Tampa’s predatory protagonist not because she’s too sexual, but because she’s exclusively sexual
The Wintourian Candidate
With high theory and unstable irony, Not Vogue strives to liberate us from the seductions of corporatized fashion
Licensed to Ill
In America of yesteryear, you often had to be sick to eat well
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