AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Future Bubble
Capitalism posits a future of endless innovation in products and production processes, but no possible change in the social relations that move them
Sunday Reading
California has one year of Sunday Reading left
Contexts and Perspective
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recently did a two-part interview with Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, in which she re-visited the “boy-gate” clusterstupidity for which I was, inadvertently, the…
Could Have Doing More to Clarify
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recently did a two-part interview with Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, in which she re-visited the “boy-gate” shitstorm that I was, inadvertently, the proximate…
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Whether it's being single in your thirties or being black in a mixed race family, Zahira Kelly has advice to help you get through this structurally abusive world
Propositions for Twenty Unmade Works of Art
Make a work based on the hazards of your job Be specific and unsparing
Real Human Being
A collection of essays on the work of Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter attempts to move toward a future beyond white supremacist narratives of human universality.
Editors' Note, Vol. 38: Futures
Who has no future, and whose future is guaranteed by the present?
Fear of a Muslim Planet
The micro-genre of “Islamophobic futurism” in fiction unites Western liberals and conservatives
The Collection and the Cloud
In the future, will platforms own our pasts?
Mbiti & Glissant
We-formations are wake formations: we-formations might be about the mati work of wake work.
Sunday Reading
Dont forget to kill your clocks
Things to Come
Afro-futurism can tear down the boundaries between "realism" and genre-fiction. A conversation between novelists Sofia Samatar and Nnedi Okorafor
This Week in Art Crime
ISIS destroys world-historical...replicas, a Swiss art magnate is busted for fraud, and more, This Week In Art Crime
Permanent Recorder
Rather than establish the conditions for self-knowledge, does data destroy them?
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