AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
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Call for Papers: Theorizing the Web 2015
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the fifth annual Theorizing the Web, to be held April 17 and 18, 2015, in New York City.
Distracted by Attention
As an increasingly transforming metric can attention be understood in terms of an economy? On Yves Citton's Pour Une Écologie de l'Attention
The Honeyed Siphon
For 14 years I have lived a hamfistedly biopolitical life, in which all food is quanta and my blood talks in numbers.
Mexico after Ayotzinapa
The disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, and the revolutionary movement that has followed in its wake, marks the end of Mexico's sham "transition to democracy"
echoes of loss
we gather for the ungeographies of slow death, fast death, silent death, unseen death, unbearable death: Mpeketoni, Gaza, Ferguson, Peshawar, Mandera
This Week in Art Crime
Anti-police ads appear all over London, Hopi artifacts are illegally sold as art in France, a Republican breaks a $70k Bank of America vase at a do, and more, this week in art crime
Host in the Shell
Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure
Intelligence
"So it begins," a medical officer wrote.
Weight Gains
Capitalist agriculture has found the best spot to store its surplus: in the bodies of workers
radical queer africa
What would queer Africa look like detached from racist developmental logics?
Sunday Reading
Frankly, Sunday Reading reflects real life. That's what we do everyday.
I BURN THE WAY MONEY BURNS @ Lux Salon
A screening of experimental feminist film on gender, time, and work Often During the Day, Joanna Davis (1978) She Said, Susan Stein (1982) Pictures…
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