AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
All I needed was a sandwich to make me believe in miracles ...
“You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country?..."
Beside the Point: Appearance Anxiety in Eating Disorders
If we keep the focus of eating disorder conversations on women's bodies, we're doing exactly what women with eating disorders do to themselves.
Sunday Reading
So much to say, and only a week and the internet to say it in.
Army of Un
Adam Johnson's latest novel, The Orphan Master's Son, is one of those rare works of high ambition that follows through on all of its promises. Set in the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea, it examines both the Orwellian horrors of life in the DPRK and the voyeurism of Western media.
Reindeer Game
In the harsh arctic region Laplanders inhabit, joy, like summer, is fleeting.
Beauty Blogosphere: 2.24.12
Beauty news of the week: the sale of the Mary Kay mansion, Downton Abbey perfume, Shaq giving a pedicure, and more.
Semeiotic Dubai: Peirce and Pop Architecture
'Gold adorned buildings, souks laden with gold jewellery that looks too heavy to wear, gold ATM machines and shopping malls so big you can feel the curvature of the earth...'
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
In the late 90s, the fortune dispatched gritty Chiquita in the MPD to institute and insufflate and propagate █████.
Fuck Forever and Never Die
The closest you can get to sex in Skyrim is marriage.
The Fame Game
Frank Warren of PostSecret and Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen discuss the instability of sudden Internet celebrity.
Night Moves
There was a time when late-night wakefulness wasn't something to be dreaded but welcomed. Centuries ago, sleepers woke with pleasure, even eagerness. Between "first" and "second" sleep, so called, men, women and children stirred to enjoy activities domestic and romantic, spiritual and intellectual.
Thoughts on a Word: Nappy
Not everyone can say "nappy" and come away unscathed. Say it to, or even just near, the wrong person and it might just blow up in your face.
Northanger Abbey and antisocial pleasure
Northanger Abbey wants to condemn consumerism and champion the right kind of novel reading, but it can find no stable premises for the distinction
Portrait of the Artist as a Rookie Cop
The photographs of Antonio Bolfo, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and former NYPD patrolman who took artistic photographs while on the job, humanize both officers and civilians. So says the The New York Times. But is this true? And if it is, does it matter?
Look What You Did, You Little Jerk
Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and culture's problem with bad mothers
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