Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
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
Aux Armes (or Not)
Sfar would have been better off directing a film entitled Serge Gainsbourg: Badass than attempting to martyrize the misogynistic provocateur.
Un(der)known Writers: George Oppen
As a member of the Objectivist school, poet George Oppen sought to enact the materiality of language through simple phrasing and shorthand. His career includes…
Upping the Antihero
You’re a good cop, but a loose cannon. Give me your badge and gun. Most Americans could write this scene and probably fill in the…
Standard Gawker English
Writing to please or writing to persuade?
The Ektorp Sofa and the New Normal
I was about to recycle the Harry Potter-length 2011 Ikea catalog when the copy on the cover caught my eye: “Hooray for the everyday.” Next…
Convenience of Streaming Services
An article at the AV Club by Sam Adams looks at the implications of Netflix's streaming service and the growing popularity of Spotify, a music-streaming…
The Madman's Interpreters
An interview with the translators of Raymond Roussel, the most influential 20th century French writer you’ve never heard of
Riot Grrrls in Space
Decades after its incomplete publication, are comics readers finally ready for the groundbreaking feminist space saga Starstruck?
Pret à mourir
I borrowed the title for this post from my friend Anton of Generation Bubble, who forwarded me a link to this NYT article by Stephanie…
We Will Never Get Away From The Sprawl
Rock and roll survives by reinventing, rather impossibly, over and over, that which isn’t permitted. For one more generation, for one more year, for one…
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