AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Sunday Reading
CHECK YOUR SNOW PRIVILEGE, CALIFORNIA
Tender Potatoes
Chantal Akerman’s films show how murderous violence always lurks in the mundanity of the domestic
If You're Feeling Directional
Upward and onward
The Mile-Long Club: The Luxury of Eyelashes
On eyelashes, physiognomy, and terrible beauty advice.
Terrifying Robot Update: Thursday, January 21, 2016
Robot cops, Robot tanks, Robot babies, Robot maids, the future is here and it fucking sucks
War Comes Home for Dinner
Since World War II, the aims of grocery shoppers, parents and the U.S. military’s Quartermaster Corps have merged
Ambient awareness
Other-directedness and self-absorption can be the same
Little Big Eater Girl
Female stars embody the addictive contradictions of competitive eating
Sunday Reading
Secret files exposing evidence of widespread match-fixing by players at the upper level of sunday reading
Staff at Wits University Threatened
We now work in a condition of occupation.--Wits University Staff
Unfit for Consumption
Thinx ads are controversial because we aren’t used to regarding women in their underwear as fully human
Tinderization of Feeling
Tinder's binary mechanism can be a template for a whole way of life in which everything is an option and processing beats choosing
Meat Market
Anthony Bourdain’s planned market in Chelsea will sell food as authenticity. That leaves little room for the democratization of cuisine he promises.
My David Bowie
Never let me down
History Against the Grain
A new global story of food tracks the rise of “middling cuisine,” but neglects to read for the hungry
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