Mapping precariousness
The first part of a chapter, titled “Encoding the Law the Household and the Standardisation Of Uncertainty,” for an edited volume on mapping precariousness.
Leftist Anti-Antifascism
It’s as if parts of the Left are frantically drawing a magic circle of auto-immunity around Trump rallies, without the ‘as if.’
Erasure, entitlement and mimicry in pop liberal anti-racism
Three articles that should be on everyone’s reading list on the dynamics of entitlement and erasure within purportedly anti-racist milieu:
Making evidence and the art of uncertainty
Evidence is a process. Not so according to legal realism, but perhaps a little more so according to legal superrealist accounts of the legal arts.
Legal superrealism
The Expanse, s01. (cr. James S A Corey, 2015) The laws of physics: gravity and the theory of relativity. Sicario (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2015. Track). The law of contracts. Making a Murderer (dirs. Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, 2015). The laws of evidence and the confessional. How to Get Away With…
Fascism, from Fordism to Trumpism
Fascism is as American as Henry Ford. And Donald Trump.
Visualisation
Visibility is tactical.
Border Infrastructure
A collection of recent writings/discussions, all of which turn around an analysis of transformations of border control systems:
Risk Archipelago, Broadspectrum and the Border Control Industry
The next edition of New Formations includes an essay of mine that has been the result of rethinking some of the key concepts in Contract & Contagion in the tumult of an almost two-year long boycott and divestment campaign directed against migration detention.
Matagarup. The frontier wars never ended, were never won
Police moved in to Matagarup (colonial name: Heirisson Island) yesterday, site of the Nyoongar Bibbulman Tent Embassy in Perth (Western Australia) — some fifty police, including a line of mounted police and dogs.
The Performative Economy of the Racial Speculative
Abstract This paper focuses on the conjunctures between contemporary financial speculation, national security and border control systems for what these can illustrate about changing practices of race and racism.
The skin in the political game of SYRIZA and ANEL
There has been a good deal of discussion about the recent elections in Greece and, in particular, SYRIZA’s decision to form a parliamentary alliance with the ultra-nationalist Independent Greeks (ANEL).
Squares, malls, bridges and highways (A note on infrastructure and #BlackLivesMatter)
Reading about the protests against police violence in the US, like many others I noted the issue of police militarization, but wondered more about the shift from the occupation of squares that has characterized many recent large-scale protests and the blockading of highways, bridges and ports.
