AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Belles Lettres
The extent to which the looks of women writers figures in appraisals of their skill indicates how thoroughly gendered the notion of “genius” remains
Class Dismissed
"Lordlings marry ballet girls, but ladies rarely put their hearts and fortune at the feet of the Lion Comique."
My Own Private Beauty Myth
A number of things I once believed to be true about my appearance: I have strong features, I am big-boned, my skin is both very…
Sunday Reading
Time is an illusion. Sunday, doubly so.
New Transcendentalist
Marilynne Robinson's essay collection is about the role of the critic in helping us to remember, to not forget, our potential as humans.
Five Questions with Eileen Myles
Genres for me are just a way in which we are controlled, protected I suppose but I'm not a writer to be protected at all.
Beauty Blogosphere 5.11.12
The legacy of Vidal Sassoon, pore-zapping superheroes, and Oliver Cromwell's body lotion collection.
Un(der)seen Cinema: Europa 2005
http://youtu.be/EGU06JQ92lc The last film Danièle Huillet saw released in her lifetime (with three others finished posthumously) is one of Straub-Huillet’s most cinematically formal and politically…
Troubled Mime
One of Paris's most cherished performers, Jean-Gaspard Deburau came to regard his fame as an invisible box out of which he could not climb.
The Unfuckables
Comedians like Tina Fey pretend to be plain to avoid the trap of being dismissed as being too pretty to be funny. This can spill over into a slut-shaming tendency that belies their faux feminism
What part of NO don’t you understand?
The book of shadows. They live in shadows.
Quentin Meillassoux and the Crackpot Sublime
The up-and-coming French philosopher is St. Paul to his Mallarmé Jesus
The voice is Ricky’s voice
it will never end and you get a sense of that 'never'
Everything Fantastic is Credible: “Bombay’s Republic,” week one
As is the case with so much African fiction, the claims that “Bombay’s Republic” makes about history don’t so much occur in a real historiographic vacuum as they occur in the context of a long history of Africa being read as a historiographic vacuum.
Strike a Pose: Vogue, Eating Disorders, and Desire
In an industry predicated upon acquisitional desire, it's hard to believe that Vogue's recent announcement about banning models with eating disorders will make them "ambassadors for the message of healthy body image."
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