SURPLUS
Excerpted from Health Communism (2022)
Ramadan Diaries: Dissimulation
This is how you demobilize a cause: by framing ethical boundaries as negotiations
Emails show Steve Jobs referred to Facebook as ‘Fecebook’
"Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard. Just ask."
Victory and Its Consequences (Part I)
This is the first part of a text we will publish in two parts, and which is featured in Liaisons’ forthcoming book, “Horizons.” In the…
Ramadan Diaries: Analysis
"You promised me not to break your promise anymore, it is I, dear, who have caused this break." —"All of Asia is indefinitely on hold."
Ambiguous Objects
Venomous people could become a reality, scientists say
Fermented Foods: A History
Suspicion of fermented foods owes to a peculiar blend of scientific and market forces so influential as to sway consumer preference in the direction of bland, unappetizing mass-produced substitutes for the zestier originals we can – and did – make ourselves.
Platforms have driven the price of content to zero
Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13
zero-knowledge proofs
Most life on Earth will be killed by lack of oxygen in a billion years
'Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell' –John Milton
Speakers take a lot for granted. That is, they presuppose information. As we wrote this, we presupposed that readers would understand English.
Can dropping a little data change conclusions?
How much is an hour of your free time worth? $19.
Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
A Letter From Sabu Kohso
Lockdown
A Letter From Kolkata
Un cocktail, des Cocteau
eBay believed that for every dollar they’re spending, they’re getting 50 cents of net profits. And what we showed is that on average, they’re losing more than 60 cents on every dollar.
Shaheen Bagh
A Letter From Kolkata
“A STUDENT IN 6 MINUTES HAD 776 HEAD AND EYE MOVEMENTS”
Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
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