Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
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.
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Advice on white girls and their black boyfriends, and how to have satisfying sex with a small dick
How to Build a Dick
At the level of identity, genitals are made neither in the womb, nor in surgery, but in the mind
Sunday Reading
Christopher Nolan's dark and gritty reboot of the Gilmore Girls.
Book Launch: The Sacrifice of Abraham (10/27)
Alexander Nemser, Work Sample, Excerpt from "Moshe Feldstein, Icon of Self-Realization" from Alexander Nemser Alexander Nemser is the author a new book of prose poems…
Commuter Riots
The Kansas City Royals' Kauffman Stadium is in a suburban sports complex that is perfectly modernist, which is to say, perfectly designed to quash riots.
Ghostbusters
Barbara Johnson showed that while deconstruction had ignored feminism, it was nonetheless inherently a form of feminist critique
Noted
In West Africa, disbelief and distrust in medical science is a problem: "Some in the crowd were silent, baffled by the white building and the…
The "Man's Woman," the "Woman's Woman," and Other Apocryphal Creatures
We've spent 120 years trying to define the "man's woman" and the "woman's woman"—and we still don't know who she is.
A Cut Below
Tracts conceived by crusaders seeking to eradicate the foreskin were published by pornographers seeking to avoid censors
Dicks Mixtape
Mairead Case made a very personal and powerful Dicks themed Mixtape for TNI but also just for you
Fully Operational
A building erects the present in the midst of a nostalgic dream
This Week in Art Crime: Dicks Edition
Artists graffitiing dicks, building dicks, painting dicks and being dicks
It has always been profound to me that the brass ring is a brass ring.
Of their nature, people who chase what the world calls success are themselves, prey.
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