AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Predator and the Jokester
Power shows its ugliest tentacles most clearly in the figures of the predator and the jokester
Lol
I've been googling radiation poisoning, I’m going to need to know how this happens. The toxic dose of ions seeping into the body politic until…
Ordinary Boredom
Distraction is no longer a relief from tedium but its metronome
The Native Struggle
The Red Nation's manifesto for Indigenous liberation in the 21st century
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
Proclamation to the Great White Father and All His People We, the native Americans, reclaim the land known as Alcatraz Island in the name of…
Rock of Nations
A leader of the Alcatraz Occupation discusses its successful tactics in reversing the federal policy of Indian termination
#upcoming
Upcoming solo and collaborative events in the U.K.
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America
By Jennifer Young
Bail Bloc
A cryptocurrency scheme against bail.
Editors’ Note, Vol. 65: Jobs
Zadie Smith recently described a Manhattan social encounter in the New York Review of Books’s NYR Daily by pointing out that among the crowd (which…
Dream Workers
A review of Nabokov’s Dreams
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