Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Surplus Rebellions
An excerpt from "Riot. Strile. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings" by Joshua Clover
Using Life: Instructions for Play
On translating and playing with the Uses of Life.
Social media as masochism
Using social media can be a masochistic means of escaping the self
Sunday Reading
then how get more vitamin come potato of the peanuts
African Poetry Fictions
A three-legged stool of a roundtable on African poetry.
African Poetry: Introduction
Everything queer about me is troubled by this frame of generations.
The Novelty of African Poetry
Does “African poetry” exist?
The Ego's Death Trip
Recent neuroscientific findings have lent new credence to this fundamental Freudian psychoanalytic concept as well as to the therapeutic value of psychedelics in dealing with it
Sunday Reading
"pundits" and "Donald Trump"
Quiet on the Border
Because borders are so weird, words proliferate.
Namaste Inc.
Greatly influential on Western impressions of India, the ancient greeting namaste has since been exploited by that country’s tourism industry for the purpose of attracting Western visitors, who have been sold on the idea that their impressions will be made real by compliant natives
Sunday Reading
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The overload
Information overload is how social media becomes TV
Contortions of self-consciousness
Getting around to the impossible demand to act natural
Sunday Reading
forever young
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