Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Communism for Children
Excerpts from the upcoming English translation of Bini Adamczak's Communism for Children, a fable of capitalist dystopia and communist revolution.
May they all be so
TNI Syllabus: Gaming and Feminism
A Syllabus of feminist games, game writing, criticism and theory in response to the misogynist gamer trolls trying to drive women out of gaming
Fathers and Sons
When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee...
Sunday Reading
Sunday Labor Sunday.
How Ought We Die?
Secular medicine’s original exclusions prevent us from understanding the process of death
This Week in Art Crime
"Kill Frats" appears on UC Berkeley campus; "Victory" and "Revolt" appear on a St. Louis Police Car; Blood appears on a Jeff Koons retrospective; and police claim that child pornography appeared in a Melbourne museum.
Cleaning Up
As a cleaner, I was prolonging the illusion that writing is and should be a living
Les Saignantes @ The Morbid Anatomy Museum
To celebrate the latest issue of The New Inquiry Magazine, "Mourning," we have teamed up with The Future Weird and the Morbid Anatomy Museum to…
Death and the Maiden
Freud’s theory of the death drive also gives us a way to think about gender
Made for China
With the dramatic expansion of the Chinese film market, big budget action movies are increasingly designed with Chinese audiences in mind.
Some Thoughts on Fruitvale Station, and No Angel
“I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.” --Secretary of State Madeleine Albright I’ve been thinking…
Terrifying Robot Update: Monday, August 25, 2014
A robot butler, a robot dreamer, a robot hitchhiker and a robot designed just for murder would make for a pretty good boy band
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading has demeaned and abused a viewpoint. Have you?
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