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.
Five Questions with Juliana Spahr
The forum: 'The bedroom, the kitchen, the garden, the oasis, the well, the beach, the forest, the clearing.'
The Sage of Brooklyn
Illustration from William Hamilton Gibson's Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them (1895) I have an essay on The New Inquiry's main…
The Man Who Saved Prospect Park
The career of 19th-century writer, illustrator and naturalist William Hamilton Gibson reminds modern urbanites that all conservation, like politics, is local
Beauty Blogosphere 9.21.12
The political history of knitting, beard-cutting hate crimes, anti-gravity skin care from NASA, and nipple regulation.
Thinking Objectively
India is a bazaar of thingness where stuff proliferates in excess of any attempts at categorization. The stacks, bundles, and piles yield another mode of looking, unknown at the factory or supermarket.
Die progressive Paralyse
There was a sentiment, a mood, that a good simulation was a reiterated simulation. But when S-22 had the occasion to prove the people at S-75 they were wrong about this sentiment, it just didn’t work.
Hog Heaven
At the Cajun festival known as the boucherie, every participant takes home the bacon
Repetition Without Difference
The mediocrity-machine: what’s “stealing” from another when the game is to produce tripe, churn it out, and witness it flowing out of one mouth or another?
Miéville's Anticlimaxes
Miéville is less interested in characters and plots than genre itself, which becomes the main character of his novels
Interview With: Lexie Kite, Media Literacy Expert (and Identical Twin)
"When we look at ourselves in the mirror we’re kind of seeing this two-dimensional image of our bodies; we’ve never getting the full feel. So I can see my twin sister's body from every angle and it’s normal. She’s right there in front of me, in every dimension, and I can’t get that perspective any
Liquid Modernity and Social Media
Liquid modernity dissolved identity; social media tries to resolidify it.
A Sword in the Arm of the Statue of Liberty As If Nearly Stretched Aloft
In which a man has a nightmare of the cross-country railway in a country he's never visited.
Anti-Anti-Parasitism
Parasitism reminds us that there is a third form of relationship that is neither participating nor opting out, neither eliminating nor redistributing, but repurposing
Interview With: Lindsay Kite, Media Literacy Expert (and Identical Twin)
"We've been picked apart our entire lives by strangers. People think they're complimenting one twin, but really it means the other doesn't have that particular positive attribute. It's not fun to be 'the twin who doesn't do her hair.'"
Interiors - Playtime
"Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) was filmed in 70mm, which he believed was the shape of the modern world..." From Interiors Vol. 9
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