AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Twilight of the Mentors
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love my gatekeeper
Reimagining Networks
An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 10, 2020)
Dining on murder hornets, a Dali of Wheat Thins, and hard times ahead for food trucks.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 3, 2020)
Killer home-brew, disappearing cheese, and food banks on the brink of extinction.
Faraway Sisters
After family is broken open, disparate daughters find joy or solidarity in the absence of the father
The Stages of Not Going on T
From Something That May Shock And Discredit You
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
Chaos Orders Us: A Letter From Paris
Why, all across the globe, does everything that serves to preserve the tradition of the oppressed also serve to oppress COVID-19?
A Detrimental Education
Zaina Alsous talks with Eli Meyerhoff about his book Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of April 12, 2020)
The perils of being a farmworker, bacon shortages, and why your chocolate bunny is hollow.
Just Play
Ruminations on the themes of McCoy Tyner’s life on the occasion of his passing
Trespassing Horizons
Reflections on cybernetics as an ideology of organized oblivion
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of April 7, 2020)
Another looming zoonotic pandemic, food maldistribution woes, and tons upon tons of rotting produce.
Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
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