Banal Brutalities
With no time for tenderness, I see my body as a sack of flesh and little more
Acta del Desastre
El levantamiento de Puerto Rico y la Instrumentalización de Lin-Manuel Miranda
Disaster Act
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of September 8, 2019)
The virtues of offal, vegan dogs, and freeing yourself from consumerism through dumpster diving.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of September 1, 2019)
The coming banana apocalypse, exploitative food delivery apps, and cheese made from celeb bacteria -- all in this week's linkpile.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of August 25, 2019)
Radioactive sushi, the precarity of American food service workers, and an update on the vertical farming scene — all in this week’s linkpile.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of August 18, 2019)
Bronze-Age parasite infestations, fast-food coronary clusters, and starving to make the rent — all in this week’s linkpile.
Triple-Decker Weekly, 146
Computers start to take over leadership functions once performed by human leaders, e.g., assigning tasks to human workers
Late Night Is All We Have
A diary from two days in Dallas
Pytipanna (Links for the Week of August 11, 2019)
Lunchroom memes, the science behind gluten intolerance, and dismal airport food — all in this week’s linkpile.
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Charles Manson Was a Republican
Long incorrectly associated in the public mind with the political left, Manson wasn’t merely conservative; he might as well have been a Fed
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of August 4, 2019)
Image: Boston Public Library Pyttipanna: Swedish for “small pieces in a pan.” Welcome to food desert America, where some 70 percent of food is “ultra-processed“ In…
Fight for the Future
On Mauna Kea hundreds are holding a refuge and defending land from the proponents of false progress
Take Me Away
A love letter to Mariah Carey
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 28, 2019)
Image: A Neapolitan Watermelon Shop from the Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Pyttipanna: Swedish for “small pieces in a pan.” If you’re worried about controlling your…
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