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.
Aide-Mémoire
On April 28th, the Museum of Innocence, the long-awaited realization of Orhan Pamuk’s novel of the same name, opened in one of Istanbul’s more bohemian quarters.
Going with the Grain
Everything Russia's Mennonites grew turned to gold
Preservation Society
image by imp kerr In 2004, the exhibition Nanoq: Flat Out and Bluesome opened in Spike Island, a large, white-walled art space in Bristol, England.…
Desecration Hardware (Prelude: The Montpellier Armoire)
especially when there are Montpellier Armoires - yes, plural… - around, which, we were to learn later, start at $3495 and are notoriously resistant to small arms fire
The Standardized No. 2 Pencil Test
Quantifying the quantifiable: the appeal and danger of beauty tests.
Desecration Hardware (Project Introduction)
It is also, coincidentally, as if history vomited in its mouth and breathed it back down into its lungs.
Sunday Reading
"Me with nothing to say / And you in your autumn sweater." -- Yo La Tengo
The White Market
Breaking Bad’s “dark” narrative of a man’s embrace of greed, power, and evil cloaks its fundamental endorsement of racial hygiene
The Ahmeds in America, Part Three
“Mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment”
Adventures in the Cash Nexus
A review of sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild's The Outsourced Self
Beauty Blogosphere 9.7.12
Soviet beauty queens, Finnish politicians, beauty in the brain, and—finally!—someone calls BS on the lipstick index.
City Under Siege
Once the War on Terror began, city dwellers everywhere found themselves living in occupied territories
The Ahmeds in America, Part Two
Never self-reflect. Never think about consequence.
We gather around a hole, and though the fingers are worn to stubs in holding fast through the storm, still, thank God, bloody still the…
Too Foreign
Are we reading Clarice Lispector at all, or merely her translators?
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