AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Youth is Never Reactionary
Youth is never reactionary; youth is progressive in time and hence always in the avant garde, hence never wrong in spirit, hence never to be…
Death by Twitter
On Teju Cole’s small fates Gary Robinson once tried to cut seven people in line at a Church’s Chicken in Miami. It was near closing…
Reader's Digest
A Review of Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac So strange and hectic a phantasmagoria were the…
A Bridge to Somewhere
From the Brooklyn Bridge to One Police Plaza and back again 3:00 pm: The crowd at Zuccotti Park, larger than any day except the one…
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lareviewofbooks: Jonathan Lethem, on his obsession with an immortal literary character. 1. There once was a boy who fell in love with Norman Mailer, a writer who…
Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop
The rise of swagger and the increasing irrelevance of haters The past decade has seen the meteoric rise of a new subject position in the…
Fear of an Ape Planet
Debating the blinkered Hollywood take on race in films like The Help and Rise of the Apes only helps perpetuate it Positive or negative, reviews of a new film…
To Sit on a Throne of Teeth, Graced With a Crown of Teeth
This has been a summer of blown opportunities, at least insofar as cinema allegedly devoted to taking those opportunities goes.
The More Things Change
(Images from AD: New Orleans after the Deluge, Josh Neufeld, 2009) NOLA’s Ongoing Disaster By Alex Gecan As I write this in late August, a plume of…
Obituary: Borders Books and Music
The Palo Alto Borders was my psychogeographical center. It seems strange to say that of a store, never mind an outlet of a giant and…
Hometown Unglory
Ash Wednesday: 8:30am, 2004/5 George Shaw’s Tile Hill paintings explore the daunting provisionality — and banality — of identity “A Sly and Unseen Day,” at the…
Occupy!
#occupywallstreet is being neglected by mainstream media. Reblog this to help make their coverage irrelevant. (more information)
Vonnegut's Firefighters
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine. —Kurt Vonnegut As we reflect on the heartbreaking, inspirational…
Un(der)known Writers: Helle Busacca
image (via) Helle Busacca was born in Sicily in 1915, raised in Milan and died in Florence in 1996. She taught in various high schools…
When Jason Walks
Through the shaky hand-held camcorder, it looks like a beautiful day on Maho Beach, located on the Dutch side of St. Maarten. Jets fly in low over the cerulean bay to clear the short runway. The lens points up to the sky; the sun bleaches the atmosphere, and a wave of gas shimmers off a
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