Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Picture in Picture
What's a better subject for art than a majestic wall full of beautiful art?
Upper Crustacean
On how to claw your way to greater distinction
Birds of a Ledger
Is the groundbreaking Crossley ID Guide: Raptors a step forward for birders, or a late-capitalist monstrosity?
An inauspicious beginning
Like cancer or money or dusk, no one could ever say precisely when it started.
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 20
You’re probably thinking that I’m choosing to interpret things the way I want to, seeing what I want to see. Well, right you are.
Eine Kleine SpaceMusik
An experience designer discusses making social sculpture from NASA scientists and worms
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Why was skyjacking so common in the 1960s and ’70s?
Sunday Reading
What's better than adding fresh (crushed) tostadas/chips or tortillas guisadas to our eggs? Absolutely nothing!
Get Off
Artists and critics should combat stylistic prudishness, overcome guilt and shame, and embrace discourses promiscuously
Social media and sensibility
Vicarious consumption of feeling as a democratic badge of distinction, a core competency for modern life
Interiors - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The film presents us with a dark and twisted world with distorted shapes and angles...
Playing With Death
Critics say videogames devalue life. Maybe that's a good thing
Giants of Boston
Face-covering vexes geopolitical divisions and reads as one thing: anti-American
Nicole Kristal, Writer and Bisexual Advocate, Los Angeles
"If you want to get pussy, cut your hair off."
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