Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Cosmopolitican, or Cosmetics as Police Regime
On a personal note, my nail beds were heavily surveilled in Catholic school.
Trollope's Ralph the Heir
A novel-length expose of ambition's relation to moral laziness and indifference
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
“there are two sides to everything...people dont just act like this for no reason...I guarantee you the professor was reacting to something that isnt shown in this video”
The Difference between Chéri and Eternity
On “writings irresistible to adolescents and time-worn courtesans, who are akin in their incredulity and passion for romance”
Beauty Blogosphere, Ides of March
Butch heroes; Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lawrence, and authenticity; porn makeovers; and, surprise! Kim Kardashian is a vampire.
The Accidental Audience
On Tumblr, users can look at art without even realizing it. Do they democratize the work or merely make it an advertisement for itself?
Ill-Digested Plots
"Nature does not smile upon the consumptive and dyspeptic"
Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn
A New Inquiry Podcast: Jerome Charyn and Michael Seidenberg in conversation at Brazenhead Books. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
Time Playlist
10 newish songs that have something to do with the concept of time (listen on Spotify)
The Day After Yesterday, Part 2: The Gathering Storm
In which weatherpersons, like bourgeois political apologists in months of May, are torn apart in the street to yawn vast and gutty.
Life: Why Bother?
Philosopher David Benatar makes the logical case for nonexistence. He may have a point.
Work Appropriate
Dressing for work in the sex industry
Turtles from the Shells
The end of the world really did happen, just like the Mayans said; but not in the way we thought
Sunday Reading
I link, therefore I am.
There factory sirens begin, / infinitely long / droning, to yawn
"The Dead Liebknecht" Rudolf Leonhard, Der tote Liebknecht, 1919 His corpse lies throughout the city, in every courtyard, on every street. Every room…
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