Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Beauty Blogosphere 3.29.13
Easter bonnets, 'shrooms, North Korean breasts, and the hottest women in tech.
No Taste for Industry
Corporate hegemony bites
Party Time
Calendars and timezones are anything but standardized in China
My Caligari dawns
(The lamp, meanwhile, had circled around behind us, a sleepwalker with a mouth full to burst with halogen and time)
Keep calm and halt the reproduction of what is
[An anti-reproductive response to one of the most idiotic memes repeated and cooed over ad infinitum, including by those of otherwise plausible intelligence]
A History of Like
The marketing field has long been obsessed with likability, but Facebook may be inadvertently revealing how shallow our liking goes
EMP Pop Conference @ NYU 4/18-19
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and the Department of Performance studies at NYU's Tisch School of Arts are proud producers of the 2013…
Why You Gotta Be So Sensitive?
Despite there being no clinical definition of "sensitive skin," 60% of us think we have it. What gives?
Feinting Spells
By promising a synthesis of rationality and magic, the term “magical realism” only reiterates the distinction
Decayed Daguerreotypes
Daguerreotype portraits were made by the model posing before an exposed light-sensitive silvered copper plate. The fixing however was far from permanent – like the people they captured the images too were subject to change and decay.
A Heaven of Hell
Punk was making up life for yourself, punk was inventing yourself, and punk was inventing the people around you, too, inflating them to the size of Gods or perhaps just cartoons. Punk was a scene and scenes are a form of myth-making.
A meeting of two different kinds of degeneracy on a dark rooftop
"The people I burgled got rich by greed and skulduggery. They indulged in the mechanics of ostentation — they deserved me and I deserved them.…
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading has some thoughts about how to improve efficiency and efficiency and efficiency and efficiency and efficiency and efficiency and efficiency.
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