Naturally, I also recommend Laurenâs book, A Map of Future Ruins, which she published this year.
Given the recent Greek Coast Guard story making the rounds, I highly suggest reading Lauren Markhamâs 2022 feature on the countryâs violent pushback of refugees and their vessels.
Pushbacks violate international law. But they seem destined not only to persist, but to spread.
This is the one. On the Indigenous front alone, Richard Henry Pratt (Carlisle Indian School), Frederick Jackson Turner, and Buffalo Bill Cody were all shaping perceptions of doomed Native futures post-Wounded Knee. A teen James Earle Fraser (âEnd of the Trailâ) was even there installing sculptures.
Expanding the surveillance state is bad. Full stop. I cannot believe I have to say this in 2024.
An amazing thing about liberalism is how it allows one to reposition the most conservative talking points as radically inclusive. âUnpopular opinion but...â and then itâs something fascists would kill to see happen at scale.
In Good Vibes Only I argue that such so-called hallucinations are only treated as mad/wrong/bad when they aren't aligned with the hegemonic order of ruler and ruled. Wild algorithmic speculations that align w patriarchal racial capitalism are not taken to be problematic the way 'hallucinations' are.
The Immigration Act of 1924 remains the eugenics movementâs most successful accomplishment in key parts. The creation, expansion, and political weaponization of Border Patrol over the last 100 years has allowed for an infinitely malleable call to arms and, in turn, an equally malleable border.
you ever just remember the 100 Mile Border Zone and get mad all over again about Lieberman, DHS, and how completely fucked our border policies have been to the anti-humanity wing of politics your entire life www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...
Today at the Oakland Museum: A day-long event by the Archive of Urban Futures, âa collaboration between UC Berkeley researchers and members of Moms 4 Housing,â re housing justice/futures in Oakland. Iâll be there in my N95 taking notes. Swing by if youâre local. (More info in link.)
Mapping gentrification, redlining and predatory loans, the Archive of Urban Futures also imagines a new future for Oakland.
There's a specific kind of madness of being a freelancer on deadline, working on a major holiday, making comments in documents into the void, knowing that the people being paid far more money than you, and who have health insurance, won't see them because they're off doing fun things.