AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
What Even Can You Even Say About The Princess-Man of North Sudan?
What is the emoji for vomit.
MoW Memorandum
tA prospectus for a new Museum of Waste, which hopes to inform guests and visitors of trash's intersections with capital, ecology and sovereignty.
Breakfast in Bedlam
Asylum inmates of yesteryear were none too crazy about the food served them
Witnessing Patriarchy
Men Witness, Women Gender.
Bodies of Water
Disappearance is not just a euphemism for state murder; it’s intrinsic to capitalism’s need for disposable classes
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
Sunday Reading
What if the worst place to get brunch in Brooklyn is... ourselves?
City of Praise
London’s discarded lots become holy ground
The Grouch
Sesame Street’s Oscar is all thinkable archetypes of the outsider, scrunched into the shape of a safe cartoon.
Editors' Note, Vol. 40: Trash
In a real, material sense, capitalism doesn’t produce goods nearly so much as it produces trash.
On the Variety of Ways to Not Praise Charlie Hebdo
There are so many excellent ways to not praise Charlie Hebdo.
Percival Everett by Percival Everett
A story about a very good writer
Character Assassination
Though they foreground models over characters, systems-oriented video games can't evade the issues of identity politics
Islamophobia as Narrative Device, in the Second Person
There is a lot to say.
Sunday Reading
John Kerry and Bill Clinton Fistfight in Kenya
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