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.
A Black Jack
ABC’s new series Last Resort presents race in a fashion that is entirely bracing, especially given the other options in the faux-post-racial mediaverse that we now inhabit.
The Last Cat
Where Zarathustra defined the letzte mensch as the man so despicable he is incapable of despising himself, the lolcat is incapable of despising his master. Lo! I show you the age of the last cat.
Vim Wins
The founder of Forbes understood that comfort comes with keeping occupied
Office Hours: "Weisure," Beauty Labor, and MAC
Why would a makeup line highlight its alignment with office work?
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 1
When our headlights raked the waiting woods along a curve, their eyes, clouded over with glaucoma, peered back, unstartled, ravenous, dull as milk.
Double header
Every film should come in a pairing to reveal its salient differences. Such as height of font. And type of building that is on fire. …
American Saints
The loud salvation rhetoric of the entrepreneur drowns out other valuable perspectives about labor, initiative, and enterprise.
Reserection
don't tell me you gonna crush something else and when you done you make me look like an ass
Africans Are Real @ Public Assembly 10/13
With the help of Bunce Booking and Africa is a Country, Dutty Artz presents the 2nd iteration of the Change The Mood series: Africans Are…
Other Animals Mixtape
10 new songs that have non-human animals in their names (listen on Spotify or YouTube)
Looney Tunes
Science historian Laurel Braitman talked with TNI's Malcolm Harris about non-human animal personalities, mental illness, and taste
Sade Is Punk as Fuck
If punk necessarily denotes the identity which is not one, than Sade is its ablest exponent
Dappled Things: Pinkhassov on Instagram
We are not mayflies. We have known afternoons, and we live day after day for a great many days. This long experience of how days…
Sunday Reading
from Frnkln Ridgway's Facebook Aaron Bady (is back at his Twitter handle): Spin The White House's initial statements about what happened, false though they turned out…
Eikonoklastes: Violence and Speech
"...for in the enjoyment of those fruits, which our industry and labours have made our own upon our own, what Privilege is that, above what the Turks, Jews, and Moors enjoy under the Turkish Monarchy?"
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