AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Media and Consumer Desire
The demand for media supplants the demand for stuff
Counterproductive
America ceased to understand black Americans as "productive," and it has never stopped blaming them for this.
Spy vs. History
In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer, the war over the Vietnam War rages on
Art of the Rebuttal: Donald Rumsfeld
Looting is part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom -Donald Rumsfeld
The Acquisitive Gaze
Pinterest demands you shop forever
Towards a Black Muslim Ontology of Resistance
Anti-blackness and Islamophobia structure American Black Muslim subjects through opposing regimes of identity and visibility
From Mega-Machines to Mega-Algorithms
How do we build resistance to algorithmic systems of domination when their rewards and punishments are both hidden and immaterial?
A Form of Faith
Memorial altars in Los Angeles offer resistance to the digital
Sunday Reading
Really, really depressing edition
This Week in Art Crime
No catcall zone signs put up across NYC and Philly, castle managers inexplicably burning contemporary art, shifty Italian framemakers with purloined Picassos, and more, This Week in Art Crime
Praying in The Closet
In gay priest Malcolm Boyd's popular prayerbook Are You Running With Me, Jesus?, queer insight elevated Christian practice
In love and memory
In love and memory of you, Chris, who were a friend and a comrade, you who literally taught me the meaning of that word. How…
In Memory, Chris Chitty
Our brilliant friend Chris Chitty passed away in his home in Santa Cruz, California, yesterday. He was a comrade, a theorist, and a loving presence…
Smash Images from Antiquity
Idolaters and iconoclasts share an unshatterable faith in the value of the image
Lies and Videotape
In the best documentary films, artifice isn't an obstacle to truth, it's a way in
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