Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of
Pharynx Folie
In my foggy and feverish mental transportations I started wondering about the existence of my own mug shot.
Doomsday Film Festival @ 92YTribeca 10/19-21
Turning End Times into Good Times by Exploring Our Collective Fascination with The Apocalypse in Film, Art and Culture. It’s that time again: time to…
Caruso Sings The Vowels
The great Enrico Caruso taking us through the vowels as shown in Caruso's Method of Voice Production: the Scientific Culture of the Voice
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
For Muslim hip-hop artists, essentialization can become the price of success
Core Values
Peeling back the layers of the Johnny Appleseed legend reveals a curious tale of environmentalism and real-estate speculation
The Pleasure Model
Sex-toy makers have built a garden separate from the messy work of heaving bodies, sexism, and history.
Over the Static of Time
Why had Pontormo come here? To escape the plague. The year was 1522.
Interiors - Psycho
The opening shot of the film is a wide image of a hotel room that introduces Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and Sam Loomis (John Gavin) to the audience; we are essentially intruding voyeurs peeping into their private space from a distance
Spotivangelism
Spotify claims to make music “social,” as if it hasn’t always been. In the meantime, it strips us of the sense of control that can come from listening
Sunday Reading
To Veluet-Guards, and Sunday-Citizens.
Creepshots and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of "Free Speech"
How the mere act of occupying a body that can be photographed becomes the consent required to do so
Beyond Terrordome
Facebook's reputation management system and the prison house of identity
Punk Isn't
Asking “What is punk?” is the wrong question. The answer inevitably makes itself wrong
Deeper Than Rap: Black Bar Mitzvahs and the New Rick Ross
A black music magnate pops out from a Star of David in an image that seems to slap Al Jolson across the face while simultaneously high-fiving him.
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
Stealth hijabis, the authentic Jennifer Aniston, prosthetics aesthetics, and #sorryfeminists.
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