AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
Like most people I know, I touch glass at least once an hour, almost every hour that I am awake, almost every day of the year.
Community Slander
Anonymity online may engender individual harassment, but voting and ranking in apps allows groups to harass groups
"Mad Men" Beauty Musings
In Peggy and Joan's swipes at one another, we actually see how similar they are.
Un(der)known Writers: Flavia Dzodan
Flavia Dzodan on Dutch racism and Zwarte Piet
Defending Rojava
A new book points to the ways Rojava can be defended from ISIS, Turkey and the Western left.
Sunday Reading
Want to purchase a Reading in the Sunday? If so, the first Reading the Sunday will ask you is, “How much do you want to read?” Seasoned Sundays never Read.
The Road to Garissa
But Kenya refused to accept the results
Garissa
the morning after a massacre / a country wakes nauseous
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two
The Post-Exotic novel wants to destroy reality. The second half of Antoine Volodine's essay on the form of the novel, its destruction and its reconstruction
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part One
The post-exotic novel offers lessons in attacking the strictures of official literature
Birth of the Commune
The Paris Commune grew out of the radical debating clubs of the collapsing French Empire.
Powers of the Bottom
The masochist submits to violence to prepare acts of violent refusal. An interview with poet and filmmaker Cassandra Troyan
Digestive Track
Meals on the go are good in theory
Poiesis & Gnosis: #rhodesmustfall and #cadaanstudies
one hopes the juxtaposition of #rhodesmustfall, #cadaanstudies, and #blacklivesmatter creates space for dialogue
Sunday Reading
The danger is post-election Post-election is the danger
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