AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
Why do high-achieving students help others cheat?
Sunday Reading
how many sharks do you think there are
Search Terms
"African fiction" contemporary -NYC
Requiem for My Potential Hotness [Guest Post]
If you opt out of conventional hotness, how do you reconcile the desire to find out "what could have been"?
Representing Crisis
When focusing on symptoms of austerity, media transfers blame to CUNY student body
The New Inquiry Vol. 55: Testing
We’re a few centuries into a world where truth is held to be revealed through tests. In practice, testing does little more than register social fates already at work.
"life that could fit in a spreadsheet"
An interview with Eduardo Rabasa.
God’s Dice
An excerpt from Eduardo Rabasa's upcoming novel, A Zero-Sum Game (translated by Christina MacSweeney).
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
In art that defines itself by what it withholds from public view lies the challenge for us to do the same
Sunday Reading
a wire mesh of the damned
The Well-Heeled Life: Shoes, Ability, and Fear [Guest Post]
We're led to believe that certain looks are incomplete without high heels, overlooking the ableist nature of the message.
Private Pornography
Leopoldine Core, in conversation with Mary Elizabeth Borkowski
Sunday Reading
yup. that's me. so you're probably wondering how I got myself into this situation.
Bug Out
What’s crawling underneath the fantasy of an insect-free home?
Then and Now and Never (Part 2)
From the search to survivors to the search for images.
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