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.
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.
Moral Digestion
"You remember what I told you about old stagers, and the roast beef diet? Well, that applies right through life..."
personal crusade against alzheimer’s
yeah what happened after midnight?
Footnote Fairy Tale
Francis Spufford's Red Plenty presents us with an alternative timeline that failed to materialize: the triumph of Soviet central planning over Western capitalism through cybernetics. Could it have been?
Gut of the Quantifier
"Pics or it didn't happen" is a slogan for the end of sociality
The Secret Shopper
“Inattentive,” “rude,” and “dumb” service workers damage the value of their bosses’ product in subtle acts of psycho-social sabotage so pervasive that an entire industry of mystery shoppers has sprung up to combat it
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading is the answer; but what is the question?
Obscenity: I Know It When I See It
The child is naked, as you normally are when you bathe. I'd invite you to click that link, and think about what, if anything, distresses you about it.
Information inundation and social deskilling
The pace of social media makes consuming information a test of stamina, rendering comprehension irrelevant
Reviving Cabiria
Fellini is most known for his surrealism in La Dolce Vita and 8 ½, but the most revolutionary idea he contributed to cinema was to render a complicated female character in a comedic role like Cabiria.
Beauty Blogosphere 6.1.12
Dog pedicures, Africa's first hair show, body lotion "Made in Occupied Palestine," the ever-frustrating xoJane.com, and free Pussy Riot.
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