Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Sunday Reading
I have eaten the donut that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast
The Ahmeds in America, Part I
The lawyer is also interested in finding an expert witness to testify about cultural and family practices in rural Pakistan, perhaps a sociologist, anthropologist or even a community leader familiar with the culture.
Will Davies @ Bluestockings and Powerhouse
Will Davies, author of The Data Sublime, will be celebrating the publication of his new book, The Happiness Industry, with two events in New York…
Recrimination and Ruined Hope
Everyone seems to agree that this kind of conflict is new...
Sunday Reading
Newly de-Amazoned readings for your Sunday
The Eructator of Ice Cream
Bildungsroman meets brain freeze
Memorial Day
Frantz Fanon, "Colonial War and Mental Disorders," The Wretched of the Earth
Pushing Pixels
The scientific practices that provide us images of Martian landscapes also cast seeing itself in a new light
Summer Reading
Some newish and upcoming literary-type books that didn't make the NYT's silly summer reading list
Sunday Reading
I have a thousand bridges to sell you.
Myth of the Garbage Patch
The massive plastic trash gyre isn't an island, it's the disaster of capital circling the globe on ocean currents
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Are men getting, somehow, even worse? Should being anti-capitalist mean women of color wearing sack cloth? Ask Marooned Alien Princess!
That Transformative Dark Thing
The practice of Black feminist breathing evokes a lineage of Black revolutionaries whose faith in freedom continues to inspire individual and communal modes of survival, love and transformation
Demolition Party
China’s construction boom is driven by an equally booming wave of urban destruction.
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