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.
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.
The highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef...
"And, after all, it is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in his private life..."
Beauty Blogosphere 5.25.12
Beauty and the singularity, bad girls, literary makeovers, and butt-shaped nail polish.
Terrifying Robot Update!
Hahaha, oh that tickles, stop climbing on me clothbot, hahaha, oh Clothbot, you’re the funniest, haha…wait, what is that, what is that you've got there…oh…
Old King Coal
The future came to Kentucky the same way industrial capitalism arrives anywhere: by demoralizing labor, exploiting natural resources, and capturing local government.
A Partial List of Male Celebrities Who Have Given Or Received Pedicures
The opposite of news.
Body, face, desire
The female desire was visible, while the male one was concealed
Sickening Waste
Anne Carson's Antigonick
We paralyze the everyday reproduction of the working class
from this struggle that built a first breakwater of defense to let us catch our breath and keep our heads above the flood of labor, from this struggle we had to begin.
The Sweet Smell of Sexcess
Chocolate, "naughty virginity," and beauty products: The biggest thing that changed from the 14-year-old me dragging magazine samples of Red Door across my wrists and the 15-year-old me dabbing vanilla onto my neck was firsthand knowledge of what an orgasm was.
All Eyez on Not-Me
Coachella’s Tupac hologram marked the end of the singular experience
Dummy Discards a Heart
Mediated game playing saps games of their sociality
in the Name of INJUSTICE
The spelling was acted. The wording did not match normal Kerrean forms. The theme was uniform.
Political Language on Police States and Political Language
"BE MORE PRECISE IN YOUR TERMINOLOGY!"
Destroy yourselves as our bosses. Destroy yourselves as the inexhaustible vacuums of our domestic labor.
When the flowers of the garden no longer smell sweet, when the leaves refuse to bloom and the birds to sing, the bosses of the garden go into crisis.
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