AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
This is Not a Simulation
The computer simulation hypothesis reveals how the American liberal elite questions everything except the insufficiency of liberalism itself
The American Model
What appears to be still difficult, even as it gets told in ever finer detail, is the simple and immense situation that America and Nazi Germany are two instantiations of a single history of white supremacist rule.
breath.aspirate.ether
"What is the word for keeping and putting breath back in the body?" - Christina Sharpe
Editors’ Note, Vol. 62: Posers
Posers get glory while incurring little to no pain. Isn't that the dream?
Difference: An Audre Lorde Archive
"It is within our differences that we are both most powerful and most vulnerable"--Audre Lorde
Talking Like a “Princess”: What Speaking Machines Say About Human Biases
What Speaking Machines Say About Human Biases
Emma Allison, a ‘Lady Engineer’
By Robert Davis
The Pity of Okja
Okja critiques affective labor—but it nonetheless relies on its effects to market animal rights
Blackpentecostal Breath
An excerpt from Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, which was published by Fordham University Press in October 2016.
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"We knew," he finished my sentence.
Algorithms Allowed
View Algorithms Allowed here. Introduction by Rob Horning Joana Moll’s "Algorithms Allowed" scrapes websites from countries that the U.S. has sanctioned or embargoed—Cuba, Iran, North…
Sick City, Soaked Lens
When even the camera itself can’t be excused for its complicity.
Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
A three-way essay on biopunk, futurism, and rejecting genetic determinism.
No SWAT Zone
Resisting police militarization under Trump.
Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter
By generating automated targeted ads, “The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible.
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