AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
This Week in Art Crime
Valuable art is stolen from a Taco Bell, a government pet-licensing office, and more, This Week in Art Crime
The Unmanageable University
Remarks from the movement against tuition hikes at the University of California
Chinua Achebe, No Longer At Ease
The Strange Second Death of Chinua Achebe
Art of the Obituary: Lee Kuan Yew
What were the odds that Henry Kissinger would be close friends with Lee Kuan Yew?
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, March 24, 2015
A robot tosses a cement brick across an empty room and it shatters on the floor into a million pieces and that's the least terrifying thing here!
The Union Jack and the Southern Cross
Symbolic erasure of the indegene on New Zealand's campaign trail
Un(der)seen Cinema: They Do Not Exist
One of the most significant Palestinian films ever made
Nostalgia for the Future
Images of Palestine circulate globally as long as they don’t picture return
Sunday Reading
Life: the ultimate concern troll.
Violent Motion, 1
Cinema’s first execution is not seen by the executed. That’s what we are there for.
Mapping the Sneakernet
Digital media travels hand to hand, phone to phone across vast cartographies invisible to Big Data
DNA-based prediction of Nietzsche’s voice
The result is presented in audio format and illustrates the first attempt at simulating the voice of a deceased person.
Memory and Preservation
The monuments in Jalada’s Afrofuture(s) Anthology
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 2)
The turn of the last century saw the dining room go from a haven in a heartless world to a fueling station for factory work
On Neuronationalism: Autism, Immunity, Security
The purview of national security extends to the surface of the brain to secure hierarchies already structured by state violence
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