AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Sunday Reading
Sean Penn revealed the location of Sunday Reading, leading to its arrest
Bloodless Coop
The success of lab-cultured meat depends on humanity’s desire to eat suffering
Wizards of Like
The News Feed algorithm is made to serve ads, not please users
On Beauty Tips and Morality
Beauty-as-goodness might seem like it's a relief of the beauty imperative, but what's more wrist-smacking than the idea that you'd be prettier if you were a better human?
The New Inquiry Vol. 48: Appetites
Appetite binds you to the social and develops a taste for it in you, and for you in it.
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Smiling babies, friendly women, and other things patriarchy thinks of as robots
Sunday Reading
All Sunday Comes From the Reading
Erasing Black AIDS Histories
A recent protest makes visible the ways that the white gay art establishment maintains the same erasure, censorship and exclusion that fueled the initial AIDS crisis.
Hello From the Same Side
Adele’s single is the musical equivalent of the desire for experiential homogeneity that Trump satisfies.
Sunday Reading
I will do far more for sunday than reading, and I will keep our country safe, something which sunday will not be able to do-no strength/reading!
Our Star Wars Holiday Special
Star Wars is the gift of George Lucas' hair.
Continental Drift
The European Union is a grand act of forgetting, but, in the novels of Ágota Kristóf, the violence of Europe's past keeps coming back to the surface
Nightmares of 1965
As part of their early schooling, Indonesians of the Soeharto era were deliberately traumatized by the state
Sunday Reading
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Full Brightness
Sleep tracking apps report passing dreams as waves
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