AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Sunday Reading
Why, yes, all your Sunday Reading does belong to us.
Flash
White morning, full of praise.
Eric's Trip
Orwell's promise: simplify your English, avoid orthodoxy. But 70 years on, journalists are still in thrall to power despite cleaner prose.
Is Taylor Swift a Feminist?
A poem in links
Beauty Blogosphere 2.8.13
Yoda's makeup artist, snaggletooth girl group, pretty girls making ugly faces, and more.
Social Habits
A stay at a medieval monastery often featured a lavish meal hot from the friar
Pics and It Didn't Happen
Snapchat as temporary photography
TNI Vol. 13 Editorial Note: Bartlebea the Dater
With its isolating interfaces, the Internet is — much like sex itself — no place for intersubjectivity. Maybe that’s why it has lent itself so well to dating.
Pryor Restraint
Stuck in between the Hollywood star system and nascent independent cinema, Richard Pryor never got the roles he deserved, or the roles we needed him to play.
The Impermanence of Beauty Work
Repeated mechanical labor—such as beauty work—can have a stultifying effect. But under the right conditions, it can also bring about a state of presence, by dint of its ephemeral quality.
Dominate
Who we "really are" is no longer to be regarded as an a priori thing but as a product of using social media
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The table of contents for TNI Vol. 13:
The Austerity Kitchen at Large
Medieval cuisine, the wonderful Land of Cockaigne, and modern notions of a balanced diet -- all in my article for Max Joseph
Usurer Illusion
A review of Maurizio Lazzarato's The Making of Indebted Man: Essay on the Neoliberal Condition.
Beauty Blogosphere 2.1.13
Anti-surveillance fashion, the half-assed improvements to the Lingerie Football League, Maxim magazine cologne, and Human Ken.
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