AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Viscera
This page was once plant material.
The rest are all Cleveland
It is a sin against the new world of mediocrity to be distinct or distinguished. We are in the chain-store, neon-lighted era. Almost every city…
Beauty Blogosphere 1.25.13
How to get the Vestal virgin 'do, MILFs, gramp stamps, and news about the worst combination of words ever: moist slacks.
Geographer's Revenge
In casting about for an explanation of what went wrong in Iraq, Robert Kaplan has stumbled into the shallows of geopolitics.
Hunger Gamesmanship
At some point they come for the butter, so you better grab your guns
Get Ready for the Marvelous: Black Surrealism @ NYU 2/8-9
The Performa Institute and NYU Steinhardt are pleased to present Get Ready for the Marvelous: Black Surrealism in Dakar, Fort-de-France, Havana, Johannesburg, New York City, Paris, Port-au-Prince,…
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 12
What did you think the end of time was going to look like?
Hangar to Grave
As Boeing's Dreamliner plane of the future sits grounded, it receives a vision of aircraft past, present, and future. But will it learn its lessons in time?
Grin and Bare 'Em: Bad Teeth
Find me a woman in the public eye with truly "bad teeth" and I'll play you some jazz flute.
Serving the Rich
The meek shall inherit the earth -- if the mighty don't consume it first
Humid, All Too Humid
On the meteorology of morals
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 4
Off the edge of the highway, space is identical to the elderly, to their insatiable hunger for time, for all the wet of youth.
The First Man
Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes's final novel is a covertly optimistic satire of modern Mexico.
Sunday Reading
Sunday is a Country.
Jasper Bernes Poetry Reading: Sunday, January 20
Jasper Bernes is a poet and author whose work on Occupy has appeared in The New Inquiry. He has published three books of poetry: Starsdown…
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