AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Networked Assembly Line
The algorithm is your new boss and the factory is everywhere.
Security Culture Is Good
Take these precautions to protect yourself and your loved ones from the state.
The Eaten World
Measuring our bodies against the reluctant microbiome metaphor.
What Does a Woman Know?
Kathleen Sheppard explores how women archaeologists become hidden in archives and left out of history.
Feminist Anthropology
Emma Backe writes a brief history of feminist anthropology and how female archeologists have been buried by Great Men.
The Changing Faces of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
A panel with science fiction and fantasy authors Deji Bryce Olukotun, Maria Dahvana Headley, and Haris Durrani
The End Is Always Near
The flourishing of fascism depends upon a sense of inevitability; Peter Frase’s Four Futures: Life After Capitalism summons the will and concentration to imagine differently.
Podcast Out
A sense of ennui and overdetermination binds the audience of NPR podcasts together in a bloc of obnoxious explainerism.
Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng”
The glitches in HBO’s Westworld might tell us something about those in our own.
Japanese American Historical Plaza
What did Japanese people give the state while interned?
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
Automated images don't just simply represent things—they actively intervene in everyday life.
Editors' Note, Vol. 57: Science/Fiction
The genre of science fiction might represent our post-truth regime more accurately than either disjointed discipline.
Deregulated Votes
How states voted with unregulated voting machines and deregulated voter protections
Sunday Reading
Truths that tell a deeper lie
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