AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Funnies
Rape cartoons are funny if it's inconceivable to you that you could ever be raped.
Editors' Note, Vol. 36: Stars
Horoscopes to introduce TNI Vol 36: Stars
Reading Sofia Samatar: Indwelling
Our two worlds scrape together like the two halves of a broken bone.--Sofia Samatar
The sadness of the rich
One actually cannot die from a broken heart. The rich have experimented on this front.
Past Perfecting
Retouching is not merely servant to photography but is an artistic medium in its own right
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The US Navy has a robot shark now, so that's good, it's not terrifying at all, it's actually awesome it's super great.
cartography's nausea
It is well known that the atlas made in Japan and the atlases made abroad, let’s say in London, have different compositions. That is, Japan…
In the future
In the future, when the remains of this age are sifted through by chatbot archaeologists, they will shake their little algorithmic heads and…
The Data Sublime
The sublime unknowability of Big Data lets us fall in love with our own domination.
Sunday Reading
At the Hands of Parties Unknown
Sickness Unto Death
Atul Gawande’s newest book wagers that a new attitude toward mortality can help save American medicine
Simple and Plain
Elvis was a hero to most
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
We didn’t create this mess. This is what they’ve left for us.
Klein vs. Klein
This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once.
This Week in Art Crime
Artists are arrested in Japan and Cuba, Jeff Koons is sued for plagiarism, again, and fake subway-ads in the UK attack bullshit jobs
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