AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
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..."
Drones are Paranoid Androids
There is an entire cottage industry of Bush-era movie-making. If a Michael Bay or a Spielberg were to concoct the spectacle of a drone movie, what would it even show?
Heroic tedium and anti-nostalgia
This album doesn't suck
Facebook in the Age of Facebook
How social media help naturalize network-driven capitalism and the sort of flexible, endlessly productive subject it requires
Reading Katehi: The Pepper Spray Chancellor
“our context at the time was seeing what’s happening in the City of Oakland...my fear is a longterm occupation with a number of tents where we have an undergraduate student and a non-affiliate and there’s an incident. And then I’m reporting to a parent that a nonaffiliate has done this unthinkable act with your daughter,
Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
The entirety of your case, which asserts that ‘I now owe a sum of money because I spent what I had borrowed on the terms of an agreement I signed according to which I would repay it’, rests on the mistaken assumption that the five instances of “I” in this sentence correspond to the same
The Conundrum of Body Hair
Body hair contains the threat of embedded masculinity and embedded female maturity—that is, female sexuality—but damn if I see that and don't shave every day anyway.
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