AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
To be the smart one and the pretty one would violate the fairness that I believed ruled the cosmos. A Christmas Tale!
Notes on sexting scandals
Metrics are more shameful than nudity
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death
Why not go gently into that good night?
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Google is Skynet, and other non-news
Reading a Draft @ Printed Matter
Drawing from a year of research in preparation for his final Issue Project Room residency project in early 2016, this talk develops a set…
The Clock Inside Us
Once a weapon to combat idleness, the clock has become a prosthesis, augmenting the human body to override its need for rest
Sunday Reading
Better Sunday Read than dead. But most things are.
RUPTURES: Between the City and the Art World
In partnership with TNI editors Jesse Darling and Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, with JKNET, Paul Maheke, Raju Rage, and Takeshi Shiomitsu SATURDAY 12TH DECEMBER 2015, OPENS:…
Poor Sleeping Habits
In Mumbai, public slumber is one way the urban poor reclaim space
Catcalls, Compliments, and Weariness
Compliments can go to the heart of the real problem of street harassment: surveillance of women.
The Life and Death of the Graveyard Shift
Working in the middle of the night has its excellent moments. Will we miss them when the robots take over?
Woke Up Dead
The hazy surreality of sleep paralysis mirrors the dysphoria of self-recognition under precarity
Red Light Green Light
For public school teachers, getting rid of tough kids shouldn't be an option
Sunday Reading
1) Magic, 2) Bad, 3) Decisive.
After #CadaanStudies
The responses to a challenge made to colonial relations of knowledge and power show that these relations are still alive and well
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