Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Vol. 17 Editors' Note: Rules of the Game
The ultimate game is revolution: new rules, no rules.
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
Obligatory identity work is easily mistaken for self-indulgent pleasure
Silence Is a Woman
Silence is a sounding thing for one who listens hungrily. Listening hungrily, I hear women’s bodies speaking in and through the silence.
Sometimes a Suitcase is Just a Suitcase: On Pede Hollist's "Foreign Aid"
Most people are just regular old ugly and interesting.
Sunday Reading
These are all the links there are, until there are more. You will get what you can take.
Facebook Piece
Purpose: To enact algorithmically-driven engagement on Facebook to foster a paradoxically participatory subjectivity.
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
We aren’t the actual ICC witnesses. We watched as Kenya burned. We refuse to forget. We cannot afford to forget.
Beauty Blogosphere 5.31.13
Hair dryer history, pubic hair removal injuries, shaving in space, and more.
Melancholic Damage
Why should we presume that the Rihanna performed on Unapologetic is more damaged and fucked up than any of the rest of us?
A guillotinable mass of lame
Sincerity is terrifying and beauty is nothing but the backwash of terror.
The Art of Conjecturing
By writing prophetic rather than speculative science fiction, Stanisław Lem developed a philosophy of the constructed, not interpreted, future.
Google's Macchia
The “neutral” and panoptic eye of Google itself becomes the camera, and under these conditions, the photographer’s task becomes curatorial
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 17
I strongly advise against falling into any kind of rainbow-like, all-embracing oneness with the universe, let alone your next-door neighbor.
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 16
I strongly advise against falling into any kind of rainbow-like, all-embracing oneness with the universe, let alone your next-door neighbor
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