Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
World Melodrama: Opfergang, 1944
Omnia sunt communia, especially a century's worth of tears and bareback horseback riding.
A Game of Chicken
George Eliot on consensus building in the animal kingdom
The Sound and the Fury
When political factions divided Jamaica, sound systems were caught in the cross-fire
Super Position
These “heroes” are purely reactionary, in the literal sense. They have no projects of their own.
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading--October 7, 2012
Radio ASMR
ASMR delivers aesthetic transcendence with a formal vocabulary that excludes authenticity from the outset
Five Questions with CAConrad
The top five regrets of the dying will either crush your soul because you recognize yourself in the list, or will make you smile that you’re free and clear.
Reign of the Techno-Nanny
Before we eagerly welcome smartphone decisionmaking technologies, we should consider the consequences of apps that serve as our moral guide
Beauty Blogosphere 10.5.12
Tights season, the emotional Chinese consumer, Pussy Riot perfume, and a whole lotta takes on that Lady Gaga picture.
Potent Ingredients
The writer and unregenerate hedonist Norman Douglas concocted dishes designed to stiffen an old man's romantic resolve
My Two Dads
Every few years we get to play a part in choosing the national Daddy.
Econospeak
At a time when much of the world is mired by recession, and unemployment is hitting record highs, it’s not surprising that we’d want experts unafraid to make sense of it all. Enter the pop-economist.
Thoughts on a Word: Fine
For all the elegance implied with the word "fine," it can also reek of: She thinks she’s all that.
My Norm is More Normal Than Yours: Academic Tweeting and Loose Fish
From a handful of tweets, to a storify collecting them, to blog posts, to an article in Inside Higher Ed documenting it as "news": “The Academic Twitterazi” had now become a thing.
Rank and File Countrypolitan
When country musicians tried to protect the integrity of their genre in the 1970s against the likes of John Denver, it wasn’t merely aesthetic protest but an organized labor movement
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