Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of
Hot or Not?
In the dominant U.S. political establishment prioritizing 'foreign' or global policy over domestic concerns is nearly sacrilegious, and that is a main reason why executive privilege on climate treaties gets buried or resurrected as political expediency allows.
Kindergarten/Cops
I know a boy named David. When you yell at him, he doesn't look you in the eyes and he shrugs his shoulders. It used to render me speechless with frustration. It wasn’t until I was on the other end of an arbitrary order that I realized what my students must really feel.
Public Spaces
Whether Facebook or Zuccotti Park, the owners of privately owned public spaces can change the terms, and the public has no choice but to adapt.
America Dads: Louis CK and Barack Obama
...that tear in the discourse shows us the limit point of dads as master ideology; the one thing it can’t actually justify is murdering your own kid, and a 16 year old American kid is President’s Obama’s child.
Theory cults
"A: I felt an infinite emptiness. It was terrifying. B: No, that’s good. Do it more."
Sunday Reading
"We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy. My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity" -- closing paragraph of Ch. 5, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Morpheus Descending
The various sleep-inducing beverages drunk throughout history represent humanity's quest for an effective knockout punch
Emergency Supplies
Can poetry can be deemed a societal benefit like healthcare or peace-keeping forces or education or food?
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
Hair hats, National Pinkwashing Month, witchy women, and those hairy Chinese ladies.
"Want some food?"
"I'd cook some for you, but my kitchen is fucked up."
Quantum Drift
Someday quantum computers will sift through unprecedented volumes of information and solve processing problems once thought intractable. At present, the one in front of me can factor the number fifteen.
Infinite Jestice
He had a bad dad, or the Dr. Seuss economy of death.
Speaking in Memes
The virality of political memes this campaign season has had little to do with political messaging and more to do with posturing and identity projection
Dissent College Issue Release @ CUNY Grad Center 10/25
Congrats to our friends at Dissent on the release of their Fall 2012 "College Issue" and on their shiny new site. Check out the site here, and…
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