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.
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
Terrifying Robot Update: September 15, 2015
Robots that run across water, go to school, and make out in a post-apocalyptic electro-wasteland.
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Advice on countering the ahistorical scientific justifications for patriarchy, and relating to a boyfriend who trashes your self-esteem.
Lying Like Cuttlefish
Fantasies of life-like machines decouple life from living. It is only from the position of being stuck in the world that we learn to engage with it anew
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading is now a threat to our national security, our economic security and your family's security.
Economy of Dissonance
The production of false fakes gets cast as a contradiction, but points back at an economic logic that refuses to differentiate between products and human beings.
Best American Poetry Pseudonyms
Can Big Data save poetry?
"Shadow Run"
"It's Bagram—Not Boston"
Wild Wild East
America has never stopped repeating stories about cowboys and Indians, even when the frontier is somewhere else
Craven Family Values
Wes Craven gentrified the exploitation genre, but by the end of his career he was priced out himself
Migrants Welcome
Did all sixteen of your great great grandparents live, work, and die in the same town where you now live? If no, then you're a child of migrants.
Sunday Reading
Other than that, how did you like the security theater, Mrs. Lincoln
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