AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
This Week in Art Crime
Russian artists attempt to resuscitate Lenin with holy water, a Japanese artist is arrested for putting stickers on road signs, and more This Week In Art Crime
Why Do Stars Love the Stars?
Celebrities and their astrologists practice an ancient psychological form of art.
Free speech, and other things that cost $91,000,000.00
Things that cost this much do not need to be protected. They are what we need to protect ourselves against.
Astral Projections
Two filmmakers do battle with the hegemony of the Western nation-state in the weightlessness of space
Cause/Affect
What remains from dismantled relationships shows just how much power those structures retain
Further Reading
To go along with Lorenzo Raymond's Beyond MLK, we've attached a series of articles, books and multimedia that elucidate a radical history of MLK Jr, the Selma campaign and the Civil Rights Movement in general
Beyond MLK
Selma depicts Martin Luther King as a hard-headed radical at odds with LBJ by 1964, but his radicalism only came later, after Ella Baker, the SNCC and the movement pulled him forward.
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 1)
As more people found a place at the table, the concern became that of finding a place for the table
Otherwise Movements
Generalized unthought movement is about articulating a relation of difference.
Sunday Reading
When Does Unwanted Become When Become Unwanted Does Does When Become Unwanted Unwanted When Become Does Become Does When Unwanted
This Week in Art Crime
A professor films himself robbing banks, Johannesburg artists break and enter to paint entire buildings pink, a would-be thief abandons her sculptural prize in the museum bathrooms, and more, This Week in Art Crime
No Spin Zone
Telescopes are now discovering Earth-size planets throughout the galaxy, but an astronomer at Berkeley explains why that doesn’t mean they are habitable
Chewing Through History
Imagine teeth chomping on a human face -- forever
The Art of Movement: #BlackLivesMatter
Protestors disrupt a mayoral inauguration with a song, and the state tries to drown them out with The Star-Spangled Banner
Love Homoscopes
For The Jeane Dixon Effect, astrology is about holes in time and queer social life
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