Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
"I don't normally do this kind of thing": 45 small fates
In a spectacular case of carelessness, Ugbo, 75, of Benin, a witch doctor specializing in arrest-evasion amulets, has been arrested. A selection of small fates
True Stories
Only fiction can be about the trivial without being trivial.
Flatland
The difference between artworks and their documentation images online is collapsing. So is the prestige economy of traditional galleries
Preservation Society
Early Americans brought a "can do" attitude to the problem of food storage
Sunday Reading
"The cave referred to as the "Moqui Cave" has nothing to do with the Moqui Indians or any other Indians."
This Is Not the Deal
Always never read, fine print is capital's surrealist masterpiece, but will we ever wake up from the dream?
Creative Tyranny
Artists’ self-important claims for their work makes them worse than useless for political activism
"Organic stories"
By filtering what you see, Facebook's News Feed algorithm serves Facebook, not you
Vol. 19 Editors' Note: "Art"
Central to the project of contemporary art—the discourse about it and the market for it—is the question of what actually constitutes art this year, this week, in general.
Digital Dark Spaces
Even when men find sex with men beyond the gay identity on the internet, they're still not safe from the heterosexual regime
Fairest of Them All
What if we saw how a sympathetic woman renowned for her beauty became obsessed with her stepdaughter's looks? That is: What if Rapunzel were Snow White's wicked stepmother?
Drama for Cannibals
Prisons and Shakespeare go hand in hand, but who's learning what when Hamlet is an inmate?
Sunday Reading
We don't recommend hiking out on the lava with your pet as the rugged terrain can easily injure them.
Beauty Blogosphere Break
Regular readers may have noticed that I haven't done my links roundup for a couple of weeks. I'd intended to just take a brief break,…
Spectrum Order
What can an autistic perspective in novels show us about contemporary subjectivity?
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