AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Job of Consent
The Joy of Consent: a Philosophy of Good Sex (October 2023) tests the limits of consent as a heuristic for "good sex," exposing the wide berth between pleasure and what is legible to the law.
When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician. His latest collection, titled simply […], was written in the months following Israel's escalation of genocide in Gaza—which killed many of Joudah's family members.
An American Education:
Notes from UATX
Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin, the campus of the "anti woke" commentariat. Student names have been anonymized.
Housewife Demonology
heteropessimism of the will, cruel optimism of the spirit
FREE PALESTINE. STOP COP CITY.
It is clear that Stop Cop City represents one of the conjunctural spear tips for expanding the existing systems of counterinsurgency that span Africa, Asia, and the Arab world.
Novel Evil
The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.
Two Months
In Gaza, we have evidence of the functioning world system.
PACBI Now
This image is the current logo for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. When, in 1963, Samuel Beckett endorsed “Playwrights…
Sunday Reading: November 26, 2023
Indigenous Justice on Movement Memos On November 23, thousands of Indigenous people and allies participated in the annual Indigenous Peoples’ Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island organized…
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
The Second Week
Some rest in hallways, others under the rubble. Some have names on their wrists to identify them, others had no such luxury. Some succumb to…
The First Week
Dispatch from the Palestinian Youth Movement
Alienated Nerds
NFTs as gentrified fandom and the destruction of cultural autonomy in the digital age
At the Tip of the Javelin
Sport, Capital, and the Far Right
American Sajaegi
Music chart manipulation is becoming the marketing strategy of reactionaries
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