AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
In Defense of Spontaneous Contestation and/or Beauty
Much more surprising than getting pushed around by museum security was the realization that an institution devoted to procuring objects for people to look at was actively blocking their view of a live event, happening in front of our very living eyeballs.
Il faut défendre la société contre les étudiants: Québec's Law 78
IANAC but this SIFUAB. Or: Oh Canada. Oh.
What the hell is the family?
it is them, it is women, above all, who have an objective interest in ruining this condition
What It Takes to Build Your Credit: "Urban Zoning," by Billy Kahora, Week Two of Blogging the Caine
At the risk of being irritatingly solipsistic and meta, allow me to be irritatingly solipsistic and meta. Also, banks and credit.
Circle of Presence
Smartphones pre-empt the possibility of conversation even before we choose to look at them and look away from the person speaking to us.
Beauty Blogosphere 5.18.12
Pedicure Senate bills, the Avon-Coty saga, the myth of women's razors, and what is surely the stupidest invention of the decade.
Facebook and living labor
Yet another way to theorize social media as capitalist expansion
The Lonely Ones
By all accounts, Susan Sontag found being alone intolerable. Solitude is a problem for writers generally, and men are often worse at being alone than women.
Terrifying Robot Update!
The good thing about the fact that I’ll never sleep again after watching this video is that I wont have nightmares where I’m trapped in…
Data Transgression
The pleasures of piracy aren't in the digital goods themselves but in the fantasy that they make pirates necessary to other people's pleasure
Love Craft
Whether they take the form of a cassette tape or an etched whale's tooth, handmade tokens of affection exemplify making a virtue out of making-do.
Hearing Like an LRAD: When Violence is Speech and Speech is Violence
To ask the question of whether an LRAD is designed to hurt people or designed to communicate across long distances with people is to mystify its central design function: it is a technology whose purpose is to FORCE you to listen and obey, and one which is less interested in the difference than you'd think.
An old man and an older woman battle to the death in an ancient manner
she probably told Gilgamesh he’d get fat off all those loaves of bread, probably sucker punched Jesus, replaced Roland’s horn with a protophonograph that split his temples from sheer sonic distress, told Vlad the Impaler that his methods were obsolescent, flooded Paris a few times for a laugh
Jar-Jar Jesus
The Phantom Menace is George Lucas's updated mythos for a cynical consumerist age — magical thinking without magic.
"She Was 25 and Curvaceous": The Death of Lorena Xtravaganza
If the New York Times can get away with describing a trans woman as "25 and curvaceous" in the first line of the piece covering her death, that means it only stopped describing all women in those terms because they “had” to.
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