Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of
Interiors - Wendy and Lucy
Wendy becomes immobilized after she loses her car, and the Walgreens parking lot becomes an anchor for the film
Fjordian Slip
The second volume of Karl Ove Knausgård’s epic exploration of the everyday, in all its glorious meaninglessness
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Hot Babe
The Hot Babe is no one in particular, and neither are you
Sunday Reading
"It is the innocence which constitutes the crime." --James Baldwin
First-Person Deficient
A review of Franco Moretti's The Bourgeois
Beauty Blogosphere 7.12.13
Feminine protest icons, camel beauty, the pregnant body and random yahoos, and more.
An Infantile Disorder
If jobs mean maturity, not everyone gets to grow up
Contained selves
Social media as democratized dandyism and self-experimentation
The Birth of Motherhood
It takes a lot of propaganda to make mothering seem natural
Go, Tootsie, Go
Why has the video of Dustin Hoffman talking about "Tootsie" gone viral?
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child
Left theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommy
Vol. 18 Editors' Note: Family Planning
The family is less a haven in a heartless world than an arrangement that has focused efforts at social improvement on relationships supposedly spun of love and affection.
Sunday Reading
Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the mold of the New Inquiry's Sunday Reading, who took over power amid chaos amid chaos but hired free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy.
How to Destroy a Community
The identity one adopts in massively multiplayer games is a ripe target for psychological warfare
Meanwhile, in Brazil
'What happened in 1964 was a military coup and not a revolution in Brazil. The emerging changes were in the system of the State and they did not change the political system, for example. We continue living in a capitalist country with the same economic system.'
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