Kony 2012 Forever
Lessons from the first viral campaign for military intervention
A Week Late and A Story Short: "Whispering Trees"
This is not going to be a very good blog post.
Simplicity, Voluntary or Otherwise
In colonial America, something as simple as a bed or spoon divided the haves from the have-nots
Interiors - The Shining
The audience is immediately presented with this space is detached from civilization; there are only a handful of scenes that take place outside of the walls over the hotel. It’s within this controlled space that Kubrick sets his film....
Playing Outside
If video games want cultural legitimacy, designers will have to concede it's not all about fun
Sunday Reading
#NoDads, #NoBosses #YeswhenIputtheroseinmyhair #liketheAndalusiangirlsused #orshallIwearared #yesandhowhekissedme #undertheMoorishwall #andIthoughtwellaswell #himasanother
Beauty Blogosphere 6.14.13
The plague of Bitchy Resting Face, labor laws for models, vanity sizing, and Swedish men in skirts.
Tennis with Muybridge
The vast majority of Eadward Muybridge’s work was done in a special sunlit outdoor studio, where one of his favored subjects to show the human form in locomotion was the tennis player.
Own to Rent
Social gaming and cloud computing are powerful alibis for always-on digital-rights management, which makes players into tenants
Massively Open Online Police State
Not long ago, online surveillance and repression were interesting experiments. Now online activity is at the core of how these nation-states envision their futures.
Open Wide
Are digital and urban commons alike doomed to feed the hand that bites them?
Pasado Compuesto
The acts of dispossession that found the modern archive and establish the rules which make our histories count as plausible — or allow others to be dismissed as fictions.
Leak, Memory
Is the author of the Guantánamo memoir really the detainee?
We're All Friends Here @ WORD, Brooklyn
Emily Cooke and Sarah Leonard of The New Inquiry join Elizabeth Gumport of n+1 for a discussion of Mary McCarthy and her vicious satire, The Oasis, which lampooned the literary…
Sunday Reading
Just because they're reading your email, it doesn't mean you're really paranoid.
Reign in Drool
Games are about accepting arbitrary authority, but play is about the Satanic refusal of rules, seeking limits beyond limits
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