AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Paranoid-Critical Method
Social media let us indulge in an affirmative form of paranoia as self-creation
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Dines
The maiden voyage of the submarine The Argonaut represented to its passengers a submersion of the ordinary.
Paranoid Androids
Political theater is not without its tragic and comic masks
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
Kinky & Carl E. Stranz, the link between vegetarianism and eating disorders, 15-year-old lip gloss, and a shapeshifting beauty-boutique thief.
Escape From Minus World
The freedom to spend is a freedom based on risk. It doesn't allow for a freedom from risk
Flag-waving And Drowning: On The New Branding Policy Of UKaid
"Why is this man touching me?"
There's Still So Much to Say
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Flight for Your Rights
Privacy rights will receive the same treatment given wedding parties when drones see domestic deployment.
Sincerely Yours
An essay on The New Sincerity in 12 Tweets
The English Vice
The impertinence of "morning people"
Under Our Skins
Smartphones bring just-in-time efficiency and corporate discipline to everything from shopping to sex slavery
Iraq Six Months Before the U.S. Invasion
Ten photographs.
Value, Measure, Love
On equivalence, sameness, and repetition. In Youtube screenshots.
Sunday Reading
"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world." -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fit Provender
“Why not throb with superior vitality!"
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