Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Poems From Guantanamo
A new book of poems about Guantanamo Bay detainees raises the prison's specter of placelessness
The Military Industrial Complex Yard Sale
The Pentagon doesn't only give police departments surplus body armor, but also surplus underpants, dish towels, spatulas and dessert spoons
Living is Easy
When it comes to summer entertainment, movies are shouting about nothing into empty theatres. Then they kill everyone
Masstige and Bargain Beauty
Motivations for buying bargain beauty products and high-end products are more similar than they seem. The sweet spot? Masstige.
In Defense of Looting
For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting.
The Conservatism of Emoji
Emoji offer you new possibilities for digital expression, but only if you’re speaking their language
Liquid authenticity
The demand to be "real" comes from capital, not from within
Incalculable Loss
The algorithms that make up Big Data distribute complicity for death across the populations they surveil
#Ferguson
Dispatch from Ferguson: "The night after Sunday's vigil, my fiancée and I returned home and watched a documentary on the Egyptian Revolution in Tahir Square."
Sunday Reading
Kitabet: 17 August 1999, 15 years later: “I still sometimes feel shaking but there is no quake." What’s the Worst Hurricane Anyone in Your Town Remembers? Slant Rhymes:…
This Week in Art Crime
An artist's work is stolen as soon as it hits NYC streets; A man steals $500,000 in prize money from a famous jazz musician; A Palestinian artist is not allowed to leave Ramallah to exhibit his work
You'll Never Walk Alone
A review of Frederic Gros's A Philosophy of Walking
Independent Poetry and the Pleasures of Concrete
linguistic espresso
Un(der)known Writers: George Jackson
An excerpt from George Jackson's Soledad Brother.
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