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.
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
Dove "Real Beauty" Redux
The Dove Real Beauty campaign exploits women's self-esteem for its own purposes. That is: It's doing exactly the same thing as the ads it claims to be so different from.
Affective privacy and surveillance
When experience has become data, privacy can only ever be a feeling
Bleak House
Bringing the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest number of people meant bringing greater misery to the already wretched
Look at The Bunny @ Cabinet Mag 5/8
Join us at Cabinet Magazine HQ to celebrate the launch of Dominic Pettman's new book, Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology (Zero Books). The…
All Cozy Now
In 490 BCE, Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles back to Athens to announce that the Greek city-states, unified into a powerful democracy, had been victorious over the invading Persians. He then collapsed, dead, in the center of the Acropolis.
Sunday Reading
Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.
Film as a Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theater 4/30
FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: APRIL 2013 The revolutionary moment of the sixties is as dead as anything, and good riddance. Though we may yearn…
CHAT ROOM: Activist Microcelebrities
An edited gchat about the perils and possibilities for activists seeking attention for movements through social media
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
The United States Senate's greatest hair threat, roadside pedicures, the gray cosmetics market, and Mitt Romney-colored nail polish.
May the curse of labor be cursed, may the ineluctability of production become its sorrow
Productive life and quotidian life coincide in their misery.
Dens of Bureaucracy
The difference between legal and illegal drugs is about history and business, but not science
Power Pop
Given China’s influence in the global economy, why has there been no Chinese Psy?
Guest Post: Gone Swimmin'—African American Women and Hair
Combine the stereotype about how black folks don't swim with the stereotype of women being obsessed with their hair, and we've got a problem.
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