AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Making Again, Making Against
The "failed" counterfeit challenges the secure core of value itself, making the legitimacy of the “true” object suspect.
The Algorithm and the Watchtower
The form of power that "Big Data" employs is not so much panoptic as it is pan-analytic
The Shanzhai Lyric
Fashion made in China has begun to promote a poetry and language all its own
Sunday Reading
Bloodsucking Fish Rain From the Sky
An Evening with Gulf Labor @ The New School
In 2009, Human Rights Watch published a report, detailing alarming labor conditions and human rights violations on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi where a new…
Skin Feeling
What it is to be encountered as a surface, to be constantly exposed as something you are not.
The Body Always Remembers
Putting gendered violence into words is a site of struggle. Press here and I'll tell you if it hurts.
Lost in the Supermarket
All this global capitalist food infrastructure, and still nothing to eat. A review of Alexandra Kleeman's novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Trans Historical Narratives
Juliet Jacques rewrites the coming-out story that anyone compelled to speak through their identity is demanded to repeat
The Lossless Self
Audio fidelity is more a matter of subjective emotion than empiricism. But what are we trying to be true to?
Sunday Reading
only a selective list of moments when something boiled over in the Sunday Reading community
Political Currency
Chartalist history shows the fantasy of money and the market as outside the state to be a fraud
The Tightrope Walker
Are you angry that you are dancing backward and in high heels and that it still comes down to how good you look in your ballgown?
Do You Speak State?
International diplomacy looks like an invite-only club, but that hasn’t stopped some people from trying to join
How Early Cookbooks Sparked a Lifestyle Revolution
The discreet charms of the bourgeoisie owe something to the attractions of life as conjured by cookbook authors
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