AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Amsterdam Demimonde
In June, a company I work with flew me out to Amsterdam, ostensibly to create art about the city. But the artists in Dam Square could watercolor a sweeter canal than me.
Design Is a Bureaucrat
Tastemakers behind the contemporary mania for design will not rest until all consumers are compelled to put their shoulders to the clickwheel.
We were carousing till the second cock ...
"Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things ..."
Beauty Blogosphere 7.13.12
The major beauty company that's tap dancing for Romney, Will Smith's "mythic phallic power", My Little Brony, and the shocking truth about horizontal stripes.
Just Another Princess Movie
The kingdom is in need of a marriage. She wants nothing to do with the suitors. She just wants to be free! And the crowd moans: Did the first girl Pixar movie have to be a princess movie?
Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton
Love is supposed to sugar the pill of patriarchy for women, but at the same time Trollope wants it to serve as authenticity's reference point.
Digressions of an Opium-Eater
Jeet Thayil's debut, Narcopolis, is as much a social novel as it is a drug novel
Month Without Mirrors Redux
Why was my annual month without mirrors so excruciatingly difficult this time around?
Ill-Starred Lives
Elephants Castor and Pollux went from marquee attractions to menu items during the seige of Paris in 1870.
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 4 & 5)
On that wall someone has written SMOKE PIGS! in spraypaint. It is not an ad for Pig Brand Cigarettes.
Vagina Analogues
The revolution in female sexuality made possible by vibrators finds its sinister counterpart in the revolution in warfare made possible by unmanned aircraft
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part Two)
Women's Wear Daily: 'Graffiti lettering adds realism to the disheveled sign.'
Dancing Days
For men, stripping is just a job. For women, it's a psychological complex
Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live: Gabriel García Márquez's Memory
Dementia runs in Gabriel García Márquez's family.
Sunday Reading
The boredom of Sunday afternoon, which drove de Quincey to drink laudanum, also gave birth to surrealism: hours propitious for making bombs.
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