Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Athletic Aesthetics
By flooding the internet with content, a new species of online artist invites audiences to complete their work by loving their brand
Guest Post: Mother's Day
"While it wasn't only the teens who were questioning authority in the '60s, we teens were in the fashion and styling vanguard—or so we thought."
Film As a Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theater 5/15
FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: MAY 2013 The subversive and revolutionary cinema that emerged from Eastern Europe in the sixties and seventies is an incredibly…
The Devil You Know
Headed for a reboot, DC's comic Hellblazer will have to find a new politics in a post-Thatcher world
Beauty Blogosphere 5.9.13
Hair color history—and the end of gray hair—underwear week 2013, and perfume to "shatter traditional notions of gender."
Live in Infamy
Everyone may be famous for 15 minutes, but online those minutes last a lifetime
The Slopes of Davos
The World Economic Forum charts its darkest fears: superbugs, fake Tweets, and bad jazz
Mirror Binge
"Mirror fasting" led me to believe that what we see in the mirror isn't how we look, but how we feel. Mirror binging showed me it wasn't quite so easy.
Fair Prices and Fowl
Quœ virtus et quant, boni, sit vivere parvo
Vol. 16 Editors' Note: The World as We Know It
It's the rise of the world as we know it, and we feel terrified.
Sunday Reading
Intentionally intentional, randomly random.
A Sentimental Education
Poet, essayist, translator, activist — Russian writer Kirill Medvedev has worn and taken off many hats
Primo Maggio
We'll send them off to go fuck themselves in the ass all of them and their shitty work.
All Our Little Lives
When it's #followateen, every teenager is a celebrity and a Tamagotchi at the same time
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