Basquiat’s brushstrokes in UFOs offer a crash course in the history of Black flight, from the Black slave seeking to flee the deadly sugar plantations of the Americas to the minor traffic violator driving his Toyota Camry a little too fast in today's US.
A personal reflection on how identity, migration, and bureaucracy intersect visually through the seemingly simple object of a passport.
Yael Bartana's Light to the Nations (German Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale) is a multimedia work exploring universal salvation in the face of a global catastrophe, but ultimately reinforcing nationalist and supremacist ideologies and echoing current Israeli state policies.
Documenting the lower Mississippi River as an acoustic space reveals already existing power dimensions at play before they become fully legible as symptoms of extractive dispossession. Analysing the politics of vibration, emission sources, and bandwidth use inequalities can reveal much about the colonial regime of extractive infrastructures by exposing the disassembled temporalities of the extractive event.
Thinking with entanglements of the wildfires on the unceded lands known as California and that is dedicated to analysing and locating openings to dismantle the abstraction that is the wildland-urban interface.
Sakawa—a combination of internet fraud, traditionalist African ritual practice, and gender performance—is not a quirky consequence of increasing West African access to digital technologies but rather a response to colonial economic policies that continue to designate Africa as a site for extracting mineral resources and discarding waste.
Images of texts from sites of protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens have been transcribed into embodied performances.
A reflection on the online action Face Mask, Not Muzzle by Tucumán collective La Lola Mora, which responds to a present undergoing multiple crises.
Is it possible to practice telepathy outside of the oppressive market dynamics that dominate the internet today?
Full audio recording of Caetlin Benson-Allott's interview with Noël Carroll in the context of the themed issue on "Design and the Componentry of Horror."