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.
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.
Beauty Blogosphere 3.22.13
Atomic hair, the world peace diet, semen-scented perfume, and period panties too!
Film as a Subversive Art @ Spetacle Theater 3/25
The suppression and murder of witches, in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, with its smashing of women’s solidarity, crushing of female bodies and feminine…
The Lives of Others
Literature stops saving your life when self-interest replaces curiosity about other people.
Review: Girl Model
"Girl Model" doesn't place blame for the deeply troubling aspects of the modeling industry; instead, it reveals the constant passing of the buck.
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 14
You don’t want to be that guy, the one who knows someone is throwing him a surprise party but just doesn’t know where it is.
Eco Chamber
Out of all the tricks and games attempted in Anthony Walsh's debut novel Eco's Echoes, he proves most successful at failure.
The Great Hog-Eating Confederacy
Tobacco and cotton may have enriched the American South, but pork and corn fed it
Change The Mood @ Glasslands 3/22
On Friday March 22nd at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn, Dutty Artz presents Change The Mood: The Empire Never Ended. Matt Shadetek will perform material from his album The…
Glassy-Eyed
With Google Glass, predictive analytics get intimately personal, shaping behavior by overwriting the reality wearers perceive
Interiors - Up
Up consists of various visual metaphors – including the notion that the protagonist attaches balloons onto his house and flies to the skies, visualizing his desire for reuniting with his deceased wife.
This Gchat Has Been Condensed and Edited
TNI has two new Contributing Editors. Most of their Gchat history has been selectively deleted, leaving behind a new conversation.
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