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.
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
Said is Dead. Long Live Said! @ City College 9/27
click for higher resolution Ten years after Edward Said’s passing, the financial and ideological crisis in higher education has caused the academy to increasingly retreat…
Sunday Reading
We don't need the kettle, let the boiling water burn.
Sir Warsalot and the Daily Show
This is a hard thing to look back and remember, and the best way to forget it is to pretend that we just didn’t know, that we just didn’t understand.
Permanent Display
While France bans face covering, one artist gave fashion ads a hijabizing makeover
Can the White Girl Twerk?
The presumed generic whiteness of the mainstream U.S. audience means that white consumers decide not only what blackness is but also what they want out of it
Vol. 20 Editors' Note: Off-Brand
We are told we must be clothed, and then that our clothes are not good enough...
Experiments in inertia
When the importance of content is trumped by circulation, the interesting collapses into its opposite
Foucault's Addendum
Finally published, Foucault's lecture notes from 1970–71, his first year teaching at the Collège de France, demolish the caricatures of his thought
Steal This Article
If stealing is wrong, then American society doesn't want to be right
Sunday Reading
Already Always Already We have always been at war with Forever
The Sovereign Double-Standard
“Legality” only obscures the real issue, which is why we are hearing so much talk about it.
Five Questions with Fady Joudah
We owe each other the disintegration of identity-memory so that we may relearn to love and forgive as strangers, strangers.
Trust In Me, Baby
If you don't trust that the hand you have is good enough, it's easy to default to the privilege of pretty-enough.
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