AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Guest Post: The Politics of Tibetan "Plateau Redness"
The debate surrounding "plateau redness" of Tibetan faces is part of the long history of situating women's bodies at the center of the struggle against colonialization.
Donald Trump: "Donald Trump"
A supercut of Donald Trump saying his own name.
Sunday Reading
Sixty percent of the time, Sunday Reading happens every time
The New Inquiry Vol. 51: Blogroll
An editor's note about your blogs, and ours.
The Chaparral Insurgents of South Texas
A new exhibit cops to state-sanctioned murder, but not vulnerability
Hunger as an Instrument of Social Control
Under conditions of capitalism, it may be that you are what you don't eat
Sunday Reading
[Poutines arrive.] Ooh-la-la.
Dark Pools
Narratives of financial complexity obscure how capitalist realisms are made—and might be unmade
The Worst Hair Dryer in the World
A quick dip into the history of hair-drying, pre-blow-dryers.
Discipline and Pleasure
Is addiction a deeper form of distraction or a desperate escape from it? What the video game Dota 2 can teach us
Sunday Reading
Nothing but flies
Cooking Class
Though food writing has been an elite delicacy for most of history, for a brief moment it became a middle-class staple
The Birth of a Beauty Criticism
Appearance is no longer just a topic for fashion ads and how-to guides
An Arbitrary Number of Theses on Donald’s Trump
my hands are normal hands
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