Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Hosed: Conservatism and the Return of Pantyhose
Between the association of bare legs with "cheapness" and pantyhose with conservative fields and regions, is there a connection between nylons and conservatism?
Book Covers of the Year
One of the best ways to judge a book is by its cover. Here are some of the better book covers of the year, as…
the colorful flowery garment of the - guillotined
Engraving by Enea Vico I can easily think of the devil, the true reversed world of the divine world, the great world-shadow which marks off…
Dirty Glut
Details from Brueghel's Gluttony interspersed with images from How to Set the Table by Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer
Not the One
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem broke with his mentor Alain Badiou in an act of philosophical parricide. But is the father dead?
All The Hungry Children
To sell sympathy for starvation, Live Aid and its successors have started using the latest in branding innovation
Blogs Round Up
Highlights from this week in blogs at TNI
Gotta Have a Code
Donnie Andrews’ life—in print and onscreen fictionalization—reads like a composite of several different lives, enlarged and textured by seeming extremes.
Hive Minds
The many honey hunters swarming the American frontier present a classic case of failing to see the forest for the bees
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
Why has pencil making proved a seductive metaphor for spontaneous order?
Interiors - Manhattan
Woody Allen, who is known for having his characters’ existential conversations spill into the streets, works here within a single space – his couch...
'Tis the Season: The Beheld Gift Guide
I hesitated at the idea of doing a gift guide at first. I mean, for a "beauty blog" I already mention, like, no beauty products, so it…
it's not surprising that we get bitter, that we cling to gun control
A social relation crystallized into something you can hold in your mouth.
Soft Rebellion
Han Han's half a billion blog followers include liberals who hope the acerbic young rebel will grow more brave or serious. But Han Han parries with equal parts modesty, disdain and defeat.
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