AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Context of Intellectual Friendship
An interview with David Scott about his book Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity
Editors’ Note, Vol. 67: Chemistry
We must name the monsters within, and claim the monstrosities we have had a hand in creating.
Consent: It’s Not Sexy
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
Privacy for Whom?
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
come on, get it!
with Thom Donovan, Malik Gaines, Ethan Philbrick, Wikipedia and the Online Etymology Dictionary
Women Scribes: The Technologists of the Middle Ages
By Robert Davis
Stuck on the Chaise Lounge: The Female Subject in Psychiatry from Pathology to Prozac
By Sophie Putka
August 9th, 2014
There is always going to be something outside, waiting to kill us all
Artificial Advancements
Technological innovation is not an inherent good for disabled people, especially when the focus is on cure over care
Up for debate
Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left
#RhodesWar: Makunyiwe Macala
A Redacted Archive
White Magic
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
The Malignant Melancholy
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.
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