Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
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
Editors' Note, Vol. 34: California
California is America’s Idea that America is still able to export.
Fragment from a history of domestic architecture, 2548 AD
The house was dying. That much was sure.
Un(der)seen Cinema: Global Uprisings
Global Uprisings, a documentary collective, travels to sites of social revolt and produces short, incisive films about them
This Week in Art Crime
A monument broken in the name of Satan, shoplifting tumblr goes hard, Hitler's favorite art gets pricey, and all sorts of other Art Crime
Reporting
It’s difficult to feel intimidated by maize-eating police. Here, in their space, there’s an at-homeness to police bodies and postures.
Festival Life
From New York to Switzerland, there are no films without banks
Sunday Reading
One can almost hear the sound of Sunday Reading sliding off the world map.
Our Halloween Costume
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A Country Disappeared
As Mexicans reach a breaking point in their tolerance for the drug war, the Mexican government reaps the legacy of presidencies lost to guns and drugs.
Film Premiere: Masha Tupitsyn's Love Sounds (11/4 + 11/5)
"Auditory landscapes can also be interpolations between space and time, space and reality, the psycho-social and the geographic, and temporality and memory. The act of…
Life of Pie
You won't mind filling yourself in on the history baked into this dessert
In Praise of Fake Reviews
Yelp's self-interest, rather than any objective set of criteria, is what determines a "real" review.
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, October 26, 2014
Robots designed to stab you in the brain, play music that will stab you in the heart, robots like to make music too.
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