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.
Sunday Reading
/kaw·re?d?/: Neoliberalism, Foucault and algorithms "A Bitter Disappointment," Edward Said on His Encounter with Sartre, de Beauvoir and Foucault "I am still sister outsider” Punished…
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Zahira Kelly answers readers’ questions on sex appeal, gentrification, and escaping abusive relationship dynamics.
The New Kid
Joseph Harms’s debut novel of high school depravity Baal is trying too hard in all the right ways
Making It: A Miseducation
In a place where succeeding means leaving, good grades are fraught with contradictions
Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center present "Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn" (9/20)
Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center present Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, a walkable month-long art exhibition of four community-based art commissions by Xenobia…
The Potato System
Peeling back the layers of this humble vegetable's history reveals that, no matter how you slice it, there's power in spuds
Sleepwalking Through the Ruins
Maurizio Lazzarato's latest book seeks to answer, “What is to be done?”
Our Fellow Travelers
Soviet painter Alexandr Deineka shared with Spike Lee a commitment to building worlds that are safe for black youth
Un(der)known Writers: Silvia Federici
How heretics became witches
Sunday Reading
Kerim Friedman: Fueling the Neoliberal Turn: Why We Need to Engage Timothy Mitchell’s “Carbon Democracy” Govt may do away with tribal consent for cutting forests…
This Week in Art Crime
In the same week that a 14 year old boy faces jail time for taking lewd photos of himself with a Jesus statue, a 9 foot-tall giant-cocked red devil statue appears in Vancouver. And much more, This Week in Art Crime
Not for Teacher
The fight documented in Dana Goldstein’s The Teacher Wars may be a lost cause
Preemptive personalization
Technology aspires to do the work of having a self for us
St. Paul (A Screenplay)
17. A large room in Barcelona. Interior. (Night.) It is a meeting of antifascists in exile.
St. Paul (An Introduction)
Below, find an introduction by the poet Eileen Myles to St. Paul (A Screenplay) by Pier Paolo Pasolini. In July, Verso Books published a new translation by Elizabeth A. Castelli,…
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