AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
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In the next scene there is a slightly pink tundra, flecked with spots of black. It is a probably the first slightly pink tundra in…
Facebook as experiment
The claim that Facebook is a big social experiment shouldn't distract us from who is wearing the lab coats and who are the rats
Dr. Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera
In 1908 Neubronner patented his “Method of and Means for Taking Photographs of Landscapes from Above”, a lightweight miniature camera which could be strapped to a pigeon and activated by a timing mechanism.
Where the Hell Do You Think You Are?
The real farce of The Great Dictator is not fictional but historical: the misadventures of Charlie Chaplin making this film
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this dismissal of the conjunction of flesh & land has always been the fatal error of armies & cartographers alike costing them both infinite losses in the grave fields of history
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
Jon Bon Jovi perfume, Miss Holocaust Survivor, Siberian body image tips, and the missing link to women's independence.
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a factory cannot edit itself it can only persist or collapse these are the basic conditions in which the wind carries the black & the wind in all directions
The Newer Inquirers
The team behind The New Inquiry is always mutating and evolving, and it's about time we reveal the latest additions. Meet our new friends: Adrian…
The Question of Pain
The genius and demons of Pentagram’s Bobby Liebling
The Dating Game: Compliments, Part III
Compliments given from men to women are received differently than woman-to-woman sweet nothings—complicated all the more so when romance enters the picture.
Camp Walker
Our reporter in South Korea sneaks onto the base to see what an amicable military occupation looks like.
Break It Down
In a dry landscape, men work. With axes, hammers, and other tools, they break stones.
Ménage à Quatre
A legendary film director weighs in on overeating and intimacy.
Relatable Transitional Objects
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama establishes Alison Bechdel as the most important cartoonist working today
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