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.
Sunday Reading
Hello, I hope these are amusing/instructive.
The Mirror Stage
A classic graphic novel expresses a contradiction at the heart of sexuality
We Are All Gawker Now
Who the hell knows what is really happening at Gawker, and who the hell cares? Answer: Gawker and Gawker. Which is the interesting thing to…
It Ought to Be Called Vice Cream
The scoop on how a familiar frozen treat once got respectable folk all hot under the collar
City of the Moon
In Jericho, Palestinians find a resort from their occupations
Signs of ephemerality
Learning from Train
Managing Hearts with Kim and Flo
Casual games mirror women’s work, teaching their players that affective labor counts
Sunday Reading
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Swimming Class
To clean the unwashed masses, American social reformers built public pools. You will believe what happened next.
Fun Will Find a Way
Pablo Cruise is the sound of the fun morality
Kid Stuff
If childhood is supposed to be a time for play, why do today’s kids spend so much time working?
Black Friday
Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay", connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses…
Sunday Reading
X-rays reveal that Sunday Reading has human teeth
Feedbags
You don't control an algorithm by feeding more information to it; you teach it to control you better
Short Story Day Africa: Interview with Rachel Zadok
Water no get enemy
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