AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Scary Negroes with Guns
The imaginary guns that white people perceive in black hands reveal a longstanding fear of black resistance
Sunday Reading
Grouch the Oscars
Visiting Africa: A Short Guide for Researchers
You are not coming to teach the natives.
This Week in Art Crime
A Serbian photographer takes crime scene selfies, a convicted art thief escapes from jail, "All Cops Are Bastards" is spray painted 50 yards wide on an LA freeway, and more, This Week in Art Crime
Droning On
An attempt to theorize the drone fails to keep its target in its sights.
The Real Image
For someone with schizoaffective disorder, blockbuster films can be far too realistic
Black Arts Boomerang
In the current movement against white supremacy and the police we can see the beginnings of a new Black Arts Movement
Nice to Meat You
An excerpt from the forthcoming book Creepiness
Un(der)known Writers: Gary Fisher
Excerpts from Gary Fisher, writer and diarist who died before seeing his work published
Teenage Screams
Sofia Coppola’s oeuvre dramatizes the emotional reality of adolescence without the condescension that comes from age
Sunday Reading
Karen Gregory: Networks, The Rate of Profit, and The Institutionalizing of MOOCs Network Pessimism True Sharing The Data Issue The Invisible Network that Keeps the…
Osmic Frequencies
The controversy over how we smell says as much about olfaction as it does about science
Bad Vibes
Casting some bodies as inherently rational and others as incapable of true speech makes those with bodies most at risk for harm unable to protest
The New Inquiry Magazine Volume 37: Vibes
The empirical unmeasurability of vibes can't deny their reality.
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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