AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Unfree Labor
A review of Ross Perlin’s Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy Taped up in my dorm room there…
The Art of the Interview: Frederic Tuten
My first book was The Adventures of Mao on the Long March. Roy Lichtenstein did the cover for me. Roy was really the reason it got published because no one wanted to take it. Nobody, nobody, would take the book.
The Art of Cuisine: Mediterranean
A review of A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David New York Review Books Classics, 203 pp., $14.95 In 1939 Elizabeth David, a lord’s…
Letters of Recommendation: C. Wright Mills to Fidel Castro
For there is no nonsense in this man about Communism or anti-Communism. He is an honest observer and straight thinker.
Fringe Feminists: Ulrike Meinhof
It seems that an unjust world is still having problems justly distributing its injustices.
Adolescence of the Undead
It is often said of fiction that it is “impossible to put down.” The suggestion is that what we want from reading is total submission:…
Piece of Candy
The original tribe of self-proclaimed Superstars, however, was Andy Warhol’s Factory crew of “odds-and-ends misfits, somehow misfitting together,” as the artist described them in his memoir, Popism. Within this tribe, the Warhol Superstar that most extravagantly combined silver screen Hollywood glamour with downtown New York chic was Candy Darling, the transsexual actress who worked alongside
Temporary to Permanent
Nothing threatens capitalism’s best excuse for itself — that it is the economic system best suited to individual liberty and human flourishing — more than…
Un(der)known Writers: Pierre Klossowksi
The “rulers” (industrialists, military men, bankers, bureaucrats, etc.) with their various tasks, are merely effective slaves who work unknowingly on behalf of these hidden masters, and thus for a contemplative caste that ceaselessly forms the “values” and the meaning of life.
Play Fair, Run Fast, and Smile for the Camera
When I was living in Madrid, I read an article in El País one day that spoke of el valorado concepto anglosajón de “fair play” —the valued Anglo-Saxon concept…
The Art of Cuisine (8): Cakes and Tarts
When the delight of frolicking with his pets wears thin, the count feasts on large fruit tarts, which he inundates with jugs of cream.
Portrait of the Artist as a Left Fielder
If sports have value, it is as art. They are a platform on which athletes and teams stretch themselves to species capacity for the ephemeral…
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Internet
The computer is the liar that always tells the truth. If you believe the lie—that what the computer does is beyond human comprehension, that its power exceeds its use value—then you are doomed to be its slave.
The Faces of Rimbaud
The personality of the adult Rimbaud, who writes letters home to his mother detailing and bewailing the state of his finances, is so different from that of the adolescent poète maudit that it seems improbable that the two belonged to the same person. Then again, Rimbaud, like us all, was always full of contradictions.
No Man Righteous
Bob Dylan’s reactionary album Slow Train Coming exemplifies fundamentalism’s alluring promise of the escape from identity.
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