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.
Occupy: One Year In
Two essays to mark one year since the first night of occupied Zuccotti Park
The Other Occupy Movement
Long before the Occupy movement, there was the Spanish movimiento okupa
Square and Circle: The Logic of Occupy
A talk on the last 12 months of the Occupy sequence as it moves into its sophomore year
I Was Never a Surrealist
In which a woman bitterly resents America.
Sunday Reading
"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since." -- Beverly Cleary
My Years of Militant Surrealism
In which a man moves to America.
Special Victims
The problem with "legitimate rape” as coming-of-age story
Love song of J. Lacan
"When one is disappointed, one is always wrong. You should never be disappointed with the answers you receive, because if you are, that's wonderful, it proves that it was a real answer, that is to say exactly what you weren't expecting"
Beauty Blogosphere 9.14.12
The first beauty mask, Revlon CEO in court Ron Perelman yet again, the woman sentenced to 11 years in prison for smuggling makeup, and flawsomeness.
Missing Captain
Against the strident tones of unmanned-flight boosterism, the reservations of naysayers become just so much noise.
A Bit Peckish
"The birds are of many varieties, beautiful, grand, horrible, preying ..."
Upon Having My Body Spray-Painted Brown
I usually decline product offers, since I'm more likely to write a 2,400-word screed on "the secret language of toner" than I am to chirp "pores smaller!" But I wasn't above the free spray tan.
releasing doves / dollars
Desecration Hardware, 2 (The Strand Antiqued Mirror Collection)
This could only mean that the house in which we stood was not only vampire but cannibal and curator.
world / effect / he he he
Somebody starts playing / funeral march on a bugle in the background / for a quarter of corporate / student athletes
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