AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Haven in a Homeless World
In Downtown Los Angeles, the homeless rub elbows with finance capital, but the developers want new neighbors.
The Souls of Ivy Folk
The new film Dear White People runs up against the well-noted limitations of “The Talented Tenth” vanguard.
The Carceral State
California gets called “progressive” despite operating one of the world’s largest prison systems.
The Ladies Vanish
The most magical innovation of the app economy is making the female workers it depends on mostly invisible.
terrain & terroir
What bodies are being produced as Ugandan? What spaces as public spaces? What intimacies as possible intimacies?
Negative Dietetics
Kant turn back
Walking in L.A.
Freeways are a metonym for Los Angeles anomie and sprawl. Thom Andersen’s 2010 film Get Out of the Car shows how the city transcends them
Africa39: We Have New Names
"Assorted toiletries, Baby Foods, Body Building, Body care, Bulk Items, Confectionary and so on until Teas."
Septuplus
Littera canina, Red alert of Rs retroflexed on tongues. Rhotic growl of propelled bullets, chirruped from a rocket.
Sunday Reading
Only Hillary Clinton can save us from four more years of Sunday Reading
The Art of Movement: #FreeCeebo
What does revolutionary art look like?
Interview in Ibraaz
The spirit of address is solidarity or speaking nearby and never for
Thirst Trap
The Silicon Valley initiative to split California into six pieces was a stunt, but the water issues it drew from are real
Not All Nerds
By imagining nerds as a race of their own, Silicon Valley tries to disguise its white supremacy
We are forever staggered that we are not ceaselessly wrecked against the shoals of the world and ourselves
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