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.
Sunday Reading
Today only, with extra Sunday.
Kippers for Breakfast
Guest post by J. Temperance: How Supertramp and Baudrillard reached similar conclusions about the land of plenty
The Laughing Indian
Sherman Alexie trades the stoic Indian stereotype for another, but do his jokes tickle or unsettle?
Evan Calder Williams and Maryam Monalisa Gharavi Read Letters @ Unnameable Books
Saturday, December 1st at 7 PM, TNI bloggers Evan Calder Williams (Socialism and/or Barbarism) and Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (South/South) will read letters at Unnameable Books…
Turkey Day in the Land of the Garuda
A New York medical woman of the fin de siècle recalls her first Thanksgiving among Indians of the non-American kind
The Streets of Spain
A report from Madrid's 14 November general strike
Structural Adjustment
In terms of expansion in the mid-latitudes, the clothing trade is a lagging indicator
Being Damien Hirst
An interview with one of the artists named Damien Hirst
The Petraeus Affair: Infidelity, Beauty, and Scapegoating
Do we want there to be a connection between infidelity and the beauty of the betrayed wife?
Sunday Reading
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Democracy's Bad Infinity
Nothing left of the word once we have declared politics to be also personal; if politics is anything, it’s everything minus the personal, so adding the personal back in—as we must—forces the essential meaninglessness of the word “political” to the surface.
Laurie Penny and Sarah Leonard @ Bluestockings 11/17
This Saturday, Laurie Penny will be reading from her book Meat Market, and Sarah Leonard of Dissent Magazine and The New Inquiry will be asking…
Looking Through You
Transparency as aesthetic feature, transparency as disposition, transparency as force
Beauty Blogosphere 11.16.12
Mama's boys, the new Gerber bebé, more proof that the lipstick index is BS, and gay men who objectify women.
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