Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian
For María Lugones
Tear gas flavor ice cream
The two drivers of the spread of the disease are close contact and crowding in closed spaces
How this moment will be misremembered
It is unclear whether infected dogs can transmit the virus to other animals or back to humans.
messing with AI models
Herd immunity is the only realistic option. The question is how to get there safely.
Reimagining Networks
An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 10, 2020)
Dining on murder hornets, a Dali of Wheat Thins, and hard times ahead for food trucks.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 3, 2020)
Killer home-brew, disappearing cheese, and food banks on the brink of extinction.
Faraway Sisters
After family is broken open, disparate daughters find joy or solidarity in the absence of the father
Vitamin D
Three potential futures for Covid-19: recurring small outbreaks, a monster wave, or a persistent crisis
The Stages of Not Going on T
From Something That May Shock And Discredit You
false positives, not reinfections
Couple Hosts “Pants Optional” Wedding On Zoom Amid Lockdown Tests in recovered patients found false positives, not reinfections, experts say The findings of this study…
the amount of virus exposure
The largest Arctic ozone hole ever recorded is now closed
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
The Dark Room Problem
Changes in sexual behaviors of young women and men during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak (44% of participants reported a decrease in the number of…
intra-household contagion
we find evidence consistent with higher intra-household contagion as days go by.
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