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AMLO All Along

By Pedro GersonNovember 26, 2024
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism

The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past

By Jaime BrooksJune 2, 2022
I've been thinking about record clubs lately. Do you remember those? If not, they were these mail-order services that you could buy CDs from in…
Features

Seen and Unseen; An interview with the authors of a new book on police abuse footage

By Hanna PhiferMay 31, 2022
When Darnella Frazier recorded the execution of George Floyd on her cell phone, she was entering into a long tradition of citizen sourced reporting that…
Features

Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation 

By Katherine McKittrickMay 10, 2022
Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.
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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Death Panel

Mask Off

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Death PanelApril 28, 2022
The end of the last remaining Covid protections deepens the categorical exclusion of the vulnerable.
Stretch

Understanding abolition through bell hooks

By Tamara K. NopperApril 25, 2022
hooks considered personal confession as the beginning, not the end
Streaming Services

Streaming Services

By Jaime BrooksMarch 6, 2022
Streaming Services is a new blog on the music Industry
Essays & Reviews

“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe

By Charlie MarkbreiterMarch 1, 2022
When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.
Lines of Revolt

A Very Long Winter

By LiaisonsFebruary 28, 2022
War transforms everything – we are suddenly for or against armies, revolutionaries become soldiers, coalitions monopolize politics, patriotic fervor swells, and the party of order…
Death Panel

“The Beyblade Strategy” or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Focused Protection

By Artie Vierkant, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Death PanelFebruary 22, 2022
The sociological production of the “end of the pandemic” means a wholesale rejection of social rights for the medically vulnerable, but it also means the creation of countless new medically vulnerable people.
Essays & Reviews

21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes

By ML KejeraFebruary 10, 2022
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
Essays & Reviews

Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State

By c. e.September 13, 2021
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital
Features

Whirlpool of the Masses

By Mahdi ChowdhurySeptember 13, 2021
The biopolitical response to COVID extends the reactionary orientalism that characterized the 1865 cholera outbreak in Mecca
Reading Lists

Plague Existentialism

By The New InquirySeptember 13, 2021
A Tentative COVID-19 Self-Quarantine Reading List
Features

From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy

By Jules Gill-PetersonSeptember 13, 2021
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
Essays & Reviews

Pfizer Walk With Me

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie VierkantSeptember 13, 2021
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019
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.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Uncategorized

Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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