Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
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.
Five Questions with Elaine Equi
She was wearing a low-cut tee shirt that showed off the word “Muse” tattooed across her collarbones like a necklace. Being a literalist, I took her at her word.
Beauty Blogosphere 12.7.12
Human-hair jewelry, eating disorders and the therapeutic narrative, Pizza Hut perfume, and more.
Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)
Shimmering, taunting, dumb as a dewy rose set aflame with a lit fart.
Follow The Leader
How does a religion centered on holy materiality adapt to the virtual?
Wrong Ways to Eat
Despite the history of socially sanctioned feasts and fasts, we're quick to pathologize women who eat inconsistently. Why do women need a good reason to devour?
TNI Vol. 11 Editorial Note: On the Movement of Food
Welcome to TNI Vol. 11: Feast & Famine. Where food never stays in one place long enough to take a good photo.
Beauty and Infidelity, Part III: The Other Woman
If part of the motivation of being "the other woman" is the male gaze, twinning it with a female gaze—if you squint just right—begins to make sense.
Desecration Hardware, 3 (The Trestle Salvaged Table in Salvaged Black Finish)
Because, as they say, the only thing more dangerous than a fully grown chandelier is one whose children you’ve just threatened.
Party TV
China Central Television is the most important television network you’ve never heard of, but not for long...
Killing the Angel in the House
Time is laughing at us in our pathetic little language worlds as it trundles ahead on wagon wheel and V6 engine.
Foodland
From lines of refrigeration to exploding pirate ketchup, an interview with food geographer Nicola Twilley.
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