AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Seeing it Hole
A new book tracks art's attempts to map capitalism
Lost in the Supermarket
In store, circular
Permanent Records
Kids are uploading their adolescence in real-time, and the Internet refuses to forget. Will it change the way we live as adults?
Fist to Brain
The boxing ring is a ritual space dedicated to the vulnerable materiality of the human brain
Sunday Reading
How did they get the dress on the llamas, though
Shadow Games
"It's a kind of military climatology springing virtually out of nothing"
Wall, Ground, Air
Colonized everything
This Week in Art Crime
A forged Goya is purchased with counterfeit money, a cartoonist works for the CIA, and more, this week in Art Crime
Wordly Treasures
The colonized owe nothing, not even words, to their colonizers
The Precarious Minimum
Precarity has become the central logic of neoliberal governance. An excerpt from the new book State of Insecurity
Panpsychism's Labyrinth
Steven Shaviro's new book teaches us how to navigate in a world where objects are peers
Cartooning the Body
The rise of cartoon imagery in contemporary art mirrors the ways capitalism has made us all malleable
Terrifying Robot Update, February 24, 2015
A discussion of robot ethics, a terrifying robot boy and a shoulder sitting robot that feeds you tomatoes
Adventures in Candyland
Tom McCarthy’s new novel is attentive to the fibers of our social networks, but forgetful of its fleshy reader
Un(der)seen Cinema: November
How are revolutionary martyrs made?
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