Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of
Collateral Damage
Former Los Angeles Times book critic Susan Salter Reynolds and writer and editor Willie Osterweil talk about what it means to be a working writer in a precarious economy and how it has changed the nature of written culture and book reviewing.
Five Questions with Jaswinder Bolina
Arabic always looks like rippled water to me, Hebrew like a city skyline turned sideways, Punjabi and Hindi like vines dangled from a lattice, Chinese and Japanese dialects like feathers and bones.
Pussy Riot's U.S. Tour?
Russia Today, the politsiya, and Western punks alike all want to know: Who is Pussy Riot, when is their next gig, and where can I…
The Future, Probably
What is perhaps most significant about Gibson's fiction, then, is what he chooses not to write about. None of his nine novels has been set in a world that requires the annihilation of our own.
Unplugged
People! It has come to my attention that I, like many citizens of the Internet, indeed need to occasionally unplug. I'm going to take a…
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
A cinema worth its salt could do much worse than to dedicate its next year, or however long it will take, to screening as many of the 500 plus films from Film as a Subversive Art on which hands could be laid. An occupied cinema could do no better.
Hate and Basketball
I spent an earlier chapter of my life not as someone who played basketball, but as someone whose entire identity was structured and defined by being a basketball player. Basketball was my special pass-card that allowed me into the zone of black America, a realm that didn’t belong to me.
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
To enucleate this low-res Polyphemus bolted to the ground of a roof, cursed to swivel and not to call out to its father at sea any words of blame and loathing other than WELCOME TO VIRTUAL VIEWFINDER! TOUCH THE SCREEN TO GET STARTED
Some Southern Maladies
'Let's drive south and never come back, never see the simulacra again...'
Your Friends and Neighbors
Is Anyone Up works like this: You have naked photos of somebody you know.
Beauty Blogosphere 4.23.12
Toilet-seat-cover millinery, smelling like Donald Trump, thinspo, and the contradiction of modesty fashion bloggers.
Sunday Reading
Why? Because it's there.
Dark Nights of The Universe @ Recess Art
et nox sicut dies illuminabitur April 26–29, Classes nightly at 7pm Recess, 41 Grand Street, Ground Floor Night of Nights The Public School NY presents four-night theoretical…
Notes on "Notes on Hype"
Hype is as much a model for personal conduct as it is promotion for a particular good
No animal escapes the cruel knife in the end...
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing..."
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