AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
Centuries of colonial domination have the leaders of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea more focused on not exporting Ebola than on curing it within their borders.
Terrifying Robot Update: Wednesday, December 10, 2014
A fully automated robot house, robot lasers to scare birds and to destroy drones, and a little bit more also!
Of Suicide
Questions of intent can’t get to the real roots of suicidal experience
Reading the U.S. Torture Footnotes
How might we understand mourning, when the event has yet to end? When the injuries not only perdure, but are inflicted anew?—Saidiya Hartman
Softer Than Softcore
ASMR and the post-pornographic pleasures of diagnosis
Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema with author Tina Hassannia @ Videology (12/14)
Since winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012 for his film A Separation, Asghar Farhadi has been understood to be one…
This Week in Art Crime
Protesters shut down Art Basel Miami, Putin bribes Fifa with a Picasso, a man punches a Monet to "get back at the state", and more.
The Sororal Death
Writing about a disease suffered almost exclusively by women presents the disordering question of form
The body must be protected, not the thoughts.
The body must be protected, not the thoughts. The body must be protected, not the thoughts. The body must be protected, not the thoughts.
Sunday Reading
The Streets Are Alive With The Sound of Music
Who Cares
The supposedly natural emotions of love and compassion are used to compel many people, especially women, to work for free
Justice for Eric Garner
Rest in Power Eric Garner
Crazy in Love
Caring for someone with a mental illness forces you beyond all conventional measures of worth or meaning
Editors' Note, Vol. 35: Sick
Sickness becomes a name for the ways the world makes individual bodies bear its weight.
Bodies Without Organ Meat
The offal truth
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