AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Strangers in a Strange Land
Religious intolerance can take subtle forms in both the personal and political worlds.
Spook'd
The New Inquiry's Malcolm Harris and The Los Angeles Review of Books' Evan Kindley talked with Spook Magazine's one-man editorial team Jason Parham about the new publication's founding, goals, and forthcoming first issue.
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
Fashion is endowed with the potential to inform a political reality because fashion comes from people. The way people self-organize is always impacted by the external expression of social and political relationships, between police/denizen, publication/reader, store owner/consumer, designer/industry.
Not by Bread-and-Marg Alone
Unhealthy eating habits don't develop as a result of instinct; they have to be learned -- and a processed-food industry stands ready to teach them.
Wes Anderson's Arrested Development
He has his critics, but it's lonely not to fall in love with Wes Anderson.
Sunday Reading
It's Sunday in Bangelore.
Our Man in Great Neck
An American grandparent recalls infiltrating the Soviet Union disguised as an ordinary tourist from Long Island.
Beauty Blogosphere 6.8.12
Male body image, NASA beauty products, and devastating accusations that the Miss USA pageant is based on something other than "high moral character."
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
Nor, for the record, did I go on a boozy spree and hypnotize Hollywood into installing bodiless voice-over narration in a good half of film noir.
Running on Empty
With the FuelBand, Nike has built something that's supposed to get people moving. For all the wrong reasons.
Twenty Places to Get Your Hair Cut
#10: Hair We Are.
Obituary: Ray Bradbury
1920-2012
Solving Happiness
When we start quantifying happiness, whose grins count?
The questioning of experience and the images of the Same
If two simulations are different from each other, they still are one same simulation.
Checks/Balances
What happens when you're in the top 1% of the population as far as hours spent reading women's magazines go.
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