AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Reading Sofia Samatar: Introduction
Over the next month, I’ll be blogging on Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria
"Harmony Korine: Interviews" with editor Eric Kohn @ Videology (1/16)
Whether you’ve been in awe of Harmony Korine since Kids or discovered him last year with his most successful film to date, Spring Breakers, the always eccentric filmmaker…
All The Wild Animals
In David Attenborough's latest BBC nature series Life Story, the animals play very human roles
Taking Shit From Others
Recent FDA regulation of shit as a medical treatment brings to light the ambivalence of excrement
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading moving ever- faster to class society. Equal opportunity ideal must be restored and progress made or all will suffer.
2014 Bonus Issue
A bonus anthology
A Year in Writing Things On the Internet
January: The American Studies Association Goes to Politics January 8, 2014 Freedom Industry January 11, 2014 Disband West Virginia January 15, 2014 February: Woody…
The 2014 TNI Awards
2014! What a year! What events! What happenings! What awards!
Three Little Books
Chris Abani, Esi Edugyan, and Alain Mabanckou take a field trip to Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
Tim Burton's "Big Eyes"
Walter Keane didn't let lack of talent stop him from being an artist. That makes him perfect for the post-internet era of appropriation
Sunday Reading
Flush 2014
Citizen, Occasional Poetry
Page 6 Michael David Murphy Title: Jim Crow Rd. Date: 2008 Credit: Michael David Murphy
Kenya's Security Act: Everyday Life
It might be, as some suggest, that the Security Act will change little about everyday Kenyan life.
Kenya’s Security Act: The Human
Kenya’s vision of the human becomes smaller—human-recognizing filaments snap
The Labor of Performance (Part One)
By gazing intently at the utter mundaneness of a person at work, the film denaturalizes their labor.
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