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.
Old Bones
Paleontology was surprisingly crucial to the settlement of the American West
Theorizing the Web 2016
The sixth annual Theorizing the Web event will be held April 15 and 16, 2016, at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New…
The Taste of Earth
For decolonial archaeology, being "of the soil" shifts with the wind.
Editors' Note, Vol. 46: Dig
From Palestine to North Dakota, this issue is an open dig site.
Postcard from the Internet
Fragments of a shadowy century
Psychic Refuge
Psychiatry pathologizes and depoliticizes the trauma of the refugee experience
Sunday Reading
Reading Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Sunday
Compose Yourself
#SS2 realizes the dream of every artist to become a sovereign without exerting force
F/W 2015-2016 Lookbook
Forecasting 1796 into your 2016 look
Gender Fuck
Queer porn fights against the suppression, ignorance and invisibilization of trans and queer desire under heteropatriarchy
Tow Center For Digital Journalism Presents: Race and New Media
November 11th, 6pm, World Room, Pulitzer Hall/Journalism Presented by the MA Program in American Studies, the Center for Study of Ethnicity and Race, and…
Migratory Words
A recent film allows beauty amidst crisis, capturing the painful poems of migration
The African is Not at Home
African migrants and refugees within the continent bear the contradictions of binding African identity to land.
Sunday Reading
Nabokov's emojis taste like bees.
Stories of Our Lives: Suicide
I do not know if any Kenyan families save suicide notes from their queer children.
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