AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Sunday Reading
for national anthems, sitting down
Then and Now and Never (Part 1)
On the earthquake in Amatrice, the search for survivors, and the inland beach that drowns the soil.
Colony Control
Metaphors of happy ant laborers work to make the same of human bodies
Hospitality and The Hairworm
When most people think about bugs, it’s usually about how to get rid of them.
Sunday Reading
This week with excerpts from the Voynich manuscript.
Bees Are Dying
In response to bees dying globally at an alarming rate, “humans would probably not go extinct” is the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ of apocalyptic diagnoses, the kind of science for which only memes can provide a rational response
Gymnastics, Ideal Girls, and the Signal of Makeup
Olympians' makeup reinforces expected feminine behavior—and contradicts it.
Virulence in the Virtual
Virulent power dynamics manifest in games specifically designed to simulate rape, as well as games that have been modified to include it
Consistency through adulteration
Choosing brands helps us forget how we are addicted to fantasy
Sunday Reading
FALSE I AM WHO I AM -- NEVER SAID
Hackers Gonna Hack
Inside the Department of Defense bug bounty program: An interview with Katie Moussouris, Chief Policy Officer for HackerOne and organizer of Hack the Pentagon, the first federal bug bounty.
Do No Harm
When mental health professionals systemically misdiagnose patients of color, treatment looks more like punishment
The New Inquiry Vol. 54: Bugs
Editorial note to TNI Vol. 54: Bugs
Sunday Reading
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Trump, or Political Emotions
Donald Trump foments hope in the exercise of his emotional freedom.
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