Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Love to the condemned, bile to the law
Go to here for updates on a serious situation.
Urban Planting
The dream of urban cosmopolitan prosperity has a long history... of failure
Sunday Reading
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Cinema Guantánamo
Much of the world’s population now an undead horde.
Solitary Confinement
The only winning move for some war games, it turns out, is to play alone.
Beauty Blogosphere 5.17.13
Cleopatra's lipstick tips, Bro-sie the Riveter, how to shoplift from Sephora, and Amanda Bynes, Selfie Heroine. And fine, kittens.
Born to Lose
Unlike other art forms, video games allow you to experience failure from the inside. This is why, like life, the best games might be unwinnable.
Interiors - Martha Marcy May Marlene
There is no clear sense of time in the farmhouse. There are no clocks or calendars in this space...
Country Crushes
What makes the global culture industry fall for some countries and not others? On how Korea and Denmark got to the cool nations lunch table.
The Benevolence of the Butcher
Dressing meat and stuffing sausage meant being a cut above the rest
The Luck of the Listserve
With tens of thousands of members and a strict regiment of one email a day, The Listserve brings online strangers together in an era oversaturated with friends.
The Berkley Horse
If all there was was hate, why did I look to it for love?
Power Loss
Are survivalists paying for better odds or just better amenities?
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