AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Beauty Blogosphere 12.14.12
Meet the Shifters, beautifying cheese, sexual consent underwear, and more.
Field of Development
Where plows and harrows venture, pens and easels follow
Dark Pages
In the years since his death, not even literature has been able to countenance colonial whistle-blower and traitor to the crown Roger Casement's affinity for penises
Sowing Scarcity
In capitalism’s inverted world, scarcity grows on trees while resources are blithely wasted
The Dandelion and the Lucky Peach
The distance between Juzo Itami's Tampopo and David Chang's Lucky Peach illustrates how far American food culture has come since the movie was first released
Things You Can Get for $2
One five-thousandth of a bottle of Chanel, or a month's worth of New Inquiry. You decide.
Fruits and Vegetables
Bananas, artichokes, and salsify, reviewed.
Mr. Kristof and His Others
Mr. Kristof's large brain-to-body ratio and his ability to grasp and maneuver objects such as a pen and notepad while he engages in bipedal locomotion is noteworthy.
Domestic Struggle
During the "Long Depression" of the late 19th century, grim prospects outside the home sparked a revolution inside it
Workingman's Bread
For 19th century culinary expert Juliet Corson, radical economics began at home
Dating robots
It makes no sense to imagine robots with the agency to choose to love us. Rather than regard them as not quite adequate humans, robots can be seen as a medium for emotional expression between humans
Sunday Reading
"What is Sunday but a series of inspired follies?"
Let Us Eat Cake
"Its vagueness is its strength--anything more detailed would get in the way of the pastel and neon textures that animate the identity."
The Ardor of Secession
We come, then, to the secret meaning of the secessionist petitions: They evince not a rejection of, but a desperation for, an intimate union with the state.
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