Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of
Hard Blows
Camille Paglia’s greatest merit as a critic is the fact that her literary analysis can double as self-help.
Queer, Interrupted
Cops have no business telling queer youth “it gets better” while they protect the regime that makes it worse. Better to bash back than to wait.
Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)
Domestic work today means to literally give over your own life to that of others (kids and husband), to their spaces, to their times, to their rhythms.
Barnard's Universal Criminal Cipher Code
All images cropped from a microfilm of Barnard's Universal Criminal Cipher Code for Telegraphic Communication between Chiefs of Police, Sheriffs, Marshals and other Peace Officers of the…
How to Shop Better?
There is something primal about going shopping and going to war. Both come from a hunger to be our best, to compete, to exercise a right or a belief.
Sunday Reading
Frank Pasquale: Wall Street grandees need to have their net worth on the line. Rethinking the corporation after Enron, Goldman, and Milken. Peachtree pooh-bahs. High-speed Internet only for…
Seriously, go to hell
What a coincidence! I was just going to suggest that the young jobless should impale Prince Charles' head on a 20 foot spike and raise it over Westminster Hall, as was done with Cromwell's head.
This trial is a “so-called” trial. And I am not afraid of you.
"The art of creating the image of an epoch does not know winners or losers." Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, saying something of extreme importance Infamy to any…
No Accidents, Comrade
Twilight Struggle and the subversion of ludic truth
Blood platinum is not a solid but a gas
From clouds of toxic gas to make bodies run blind to a cloud of dust in which they shoot blind at running bodies.
Beauty Blogosphere 8.17.12
The Manic Pixie Dream Fund, beautiful witches of Japan, the life of a perfume "nose," and how to use your blow-dryer for auto body work.
1934, Minneapolis.
and pour the coal on the street
"In the coal drivers strike, we did not have enough pickets at the beginning of the walkout to successfully close all the yards that were…
System Failures
Screenshot from Ghost Recon: Future Soldier On April 9, 2009, fourteen peace activists were arrested for trespassing onto Creech Air Force Base (AFB) in Indian…
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