AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Irrelevant and the Contemporary
Why is poetry #trending in contemporary art?
Fable
On little devices the people carried around with them, it was all monster all the time.
Sunday Reading
Too much time on sunday reading may lead to an early death or a late one, I don't know
Hanford Idyll
At Hanford Nuclear Reservation, wildlife is imagined as thriving, and violent state policy is extended into an indefinitely long future
Addicted to Failure
Neoliberalism foists on career-minded millennials a self-relation which resembles that of alcoholics in the throes of addiction.
Anger Management
In the novels of Horacio Castellanos Moya, the political is personal
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading never got its act together, that his campaign was a mess”:
Not for You
The growth in consumption inequality means more movies are made for the dwindling numbers of top earners
"Let Loose Your Tongue"
A Roundtable on Basma Abdel Aziz's The Queue.
Sunday Reading
print out a copy for your friends
Time Is a Killer
Aging, as a staged theme, provokes other forms of performance to become strained and uncertain
Death by Immortality
Cancer is a tainted bonus
Recoil Operation
America’s rifle is thus an overdetermined object: the symbol of the violence we visit on others, and which we thrive on exporting.
Sunday Reading
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African Poetry: Safia Elhillo
We shall not always mourn feels like an impossible promise—bloodwork.
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