AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
I saw a man's skull on a tower
[S a/o B has been on unannounced hiatus while dealing with things non-internetable. Now back. Taking the skull back off the tower and back into…
Praise for Game of Drones
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Today marks the launch of The New Inquiry Vol. 6: "Game of Drones," and we still haven't come up with a reason for the topic that convinces even ourselves
Nobody Knows You're a Drone
For a citizenry subjected to technologically enhanced surveilance, watching the watchers will prove a veritable game of drones
Border Control
For artist and director Alex Rivera, drones are the medium and the message
Search for a Method
Hard numbers meet soft power when it comes to tallying Pakistani drone-strike deaths
For the Win: Failure!
"You cannot lose if you do not play."
Sunday Reading
Sunday is a figment of your imagination. Wake up sheeple.
Protected: Creating a Blog
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We Mock What We Don't Understand
How the paranoid logic of nuclear deterrence became a laughing matter and authorized the even crazier madness of consumerism
Five Questions with Lisa Russ Spaar
What makes a habit "bad"? A rut of overusing genitive-link metaphors. An addiction to certain kinds of low-end television, like The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Gathering Light
Life for Japan's firefly catchers was full of hard knocks.
Beauty Blogosphere 6.29.12
Hunka hunka sexist love, exclusively plus-size gyms, the trouble with fitspo, and Hello Kitty collagen marshmallows.
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