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.
The Revolution Unhinged
A review of Adam Thirwell's Kapow! in the context of experimental literary forms
The Revolution Goes Kablooie
A review of Adam Thirwell's Kapow! in the context of the Egyptian Revolution
Social Mechanism
The truth about piece in our time, any way you slice it.
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
Bears with the force to bend bars dream of making iron flowers of the unwrought cages. A garden they roar a garden for us all.
Sunday Reading
Frank Pasquale: The new anarchy: offshore tax havens; will Mitt Romney be to tax avoidance what Rick Scott was to Medicare fraud? Durable inequality. Wall Street in a sentence:…
They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
Emmanuel Carrère seeks out the stories most people would rather not try to understand
Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12
Fashion in academia (elbow patches!), the "pink pyramid" of Mary Kay, and nun beauty pageants.
Trailing after Tarzan
“Not a bit afraid. Not a bit sorry.”
Workers of all countries, call it a day!
"Some critics have called The Black Book a “pamphlet of insults directed against the market economy”. I accept this critical assessment with pleasure. Only from…
Batman Occupied
Batman is too big to fail, in so many ways
Slow Food
The delight of eating escargot was matched only by the pleasure of knowing you didn't have to shell out a lot for the meal.
Why Is This Man Wearing A Turban?
The gray-eyed gaze of the man in the painting is a dare. Show me who’s done it better, he seems to say. Didn’t think so, he adds.
Iron Gandhi
The introduction and conclusion of Norman G. Finkelstein’s What Gandhi Says speak of #OWS and the Arab Spring, implying they require Gandhian guidance. It may have well been called It's Gandhi Time!
and that alone is love, that which never becomes something else
every case is a case of love.
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It also does not think that the unity of time & action is of particular importance no not nearly as important as the unity of a world of matter & a rage of world
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