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.
Fillet of Sole
The cannibalistic practices of one South American tribe left Swedish explorer Algot Lange with a lot to chew on.
Everybody Have Fun Tonight
LMFAO’s music provides an endless party with no real cause for celebration, turning fun into a forced march through the hyperreal
You Really Got Me
"Mad Men," erotic capital, and the red-herring desire to "truly own" beauty.
This, too, is for the best
We know that there is always a beginning.
Killer Mag
The magazine as a form is not dead, though some 57 innocent victims may be.
Model Behavior
[r]Image by imp kerr[/r] Gender determines the shape of our fantasies. Good little boys are supposed to dream about changing the world, but good little girls are…
Damning With Faint Prize: Stanley Kenani’s “Love on Trial”
It is, in fact, precisely the opposite of “offensive”; so blandly unobjectionable that I have had some difficulty putting my finger on exactly why I dislike it. But for you, dear reader, I'll give it a shot...
Desiring Machines
The various tendencies subsumed under the New Aesthetic label point to a future in which the objects of our affection develop affection for us
What 36 Looks Like
Is there a Platonic Form for what a thirtysomething is supposed to look like?
Lonely and crying
The Bee Gees' art of inconsolable sadness
Reality Fiction
Fragments on Sheila Heti's How Should A Person Be? including an interview with the author
Alone Again Or
Shelia Heti’s first story collection, newly released in the U.S., catalogs the enduring stakes of gender in the rigged game of heterosex
Sunday Reading
I liked Sunday Reading's first few LP's, before they sold out and got all commercial.
Hitler and Voldemort Combined
Twitter as mass-murderer
How Bad Is It?
In his three-volume survey of America's fall, Morris Berman seeks the source of our civilization’s decline in its innermost principle. What he finds at the bottom of our nation's soul is … hustling.
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