Notes on red liberty
The cover art of New Narratives on the Peopling of America
Everyone is from this earth, everyone is Indigenous, everyone is illegal. ...
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New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration
How can the process that created the city also be responsible for destroying it?
More than anywhere else, in New York, the migrant crisis—essentially a migration governance crisis—is an existential one: it interrogates not only the capacity of the city to welcome newcomers but also the city’s broader prospects. ...
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It’s Not a Migrant Crisis—It’s a Political Crisis
The creation of a global category of the unfree
Amidst acknowledging the immediate suffering of migrants and asylum seekers, this critique challenges the narrative surrounding the so-called "migrant crisis." It argues that diverting attention from systemic issues perpetuates dehumanization and supports policies hindering migrants' rights. Emphasizing the need for equitable immigration policies, it advocates for building diverse, inclusive societies....
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Testing the Waters in Gotham
A look at how residents throughout the city’s history have chosen what to drink
The three forms of water distribution form a fluid archive of community formation, civic pride, and the many different possible ways New Yorkers can choose the water they drink....
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How Can Cities Drive Net-Zero Carbon Goals and Create Vibrant Urban Communities?
Nature-based solutions offer a way forward
Cities must achieve four goals: minimize greenhouse gas emissions, foster low and net-zero carbon behaviors, minimize changes in land cover that increase local temperatures and exacerbate the urban heat island effect, and create livable and vibrant communities. ...
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Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale
An excerpt from Interspecies Politics
The biggest challenge posed by the question of wild animal sovereignties is to the operation of human sovereignty, which itself is figured through animality and in some cases through animals....
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Taking Water for Granted
Modern infrastructure has created the expectation of a continuous, drinkable flow of water
Water use has always been an indicator of social relations. In western societies, most treat drinking water as a simultaneously infinite and hyper-individualized resource. But plastic pollution and the climate emergency are forcing us to question our consumption habits....
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The Little Prince Haunts New York
Following Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from the Ritz to the East River
When I moved to New York, I set out to discover how my new adopted home had influenced that sense of tristesse in The Little Prince, which Saint-Exupéry wrote during his 1941–1943 stay in the city....
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The Elevator Paradox at The New School for Social Research
What goes up doesn’t always come down
The elevators at The New School’s 6 East 16th Street building, hide a perplexing paradox. Known for delays and unpredictable patterns, these lifts challenge the student....
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Ethologies of Animal Politics
Do animals have political cultures?
Consider the growing ethological evidence of how animal communities themselves do face-to-face politics....
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An Experimental Music Community Grows in Brooklyn
International Anthem Recording Company is changing the face of free jazz
A key example of the experimental spirit in the artistic community that International Anthem is documenting is the work of Alabaster DePlume, an English saxophonist, poet, composer, and activist. Last year, in producing the album GOLD, DePlume assembled a group of musicians to record in sessions that were both safe ...
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Market Failures
How do we protect consumers from their own mistakes?
Most motor vehicles emit pollution, including greenhouse gases, and use gasoline that increases national dependence on foreign oil. On standard economic grounds, the result is a market failure in the form of excessive pollution, for which some kind of cap-and-trade system or corrective tax is the best response, designed to ...
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