Suspect
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24Elephants
Is there life on Saturn? Is life possible in Texas? Father and daughter and other-worldly creatures attempt an answer. [fiction]
Is there life on Saturn? Is life possible in Texas? Father and daughter and other-worldly creatures attempt an answer. [fiction]
58Suspect
A sleeping woman wakes up to find an intruder in her home. She chases her, catches her, but can’t think of what to do next. [film]
A sleeping woman wakes up to find an intruder in her home. She chases her, catches her, but can’t think of what to do next. [film]
96Detained: Iraq 2003
Iraqis are detained by the US military. [photo essay]
Iraqis are detained by the US military. [photo essay]
120Before and After
Drawings track jpeg images of the war in Iraq using a homemade separation technique; they are done as rubbings with window screening and crayons. [drawings]
Drawings track jpeg images of the war in Iraq using a homemade separation technique; they are done as rubbings with window screening and crayons. [drawings]
128Suspect States: Kant’s advice for the United Nations
Immanuel Kant—the United Nations’ philosophical architect— is asked how the world body should deal with suspect states that threaten the international order. [essay]
Immanuel Kant—the United Nations’ philosophical architect— is asked how the world body should deal with suspect states that threaten the international order. [essay]
142Liberalism, or What rights look like in a shipwreck
Can liberalism defend itself, if the idea of universal rights means it can’t recognize suspects or enemies when it needs to? [essay]
Can liberalism defend itself, if the idea of universal rights means it can’t recognize suspects or enemies when it needs to? [essay]
170Brandon Mayfield, Suspect
What makes a suspect? Fingerprint evidence and “suspicious” facts in the case of Brandon Mayfield, who was eventually cleared in the Madrid train bombing. [essay]
What makes a suspect? Fingerprint evidence and “suspicious” facts in the case of Brandon Mayfield, who was eventually cleared in the Madrid train bombing. [essay]
234Sektor’s Suspicions
Secret police film a Polish man setting himself on fire to protest the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. [essay]
Secret police film a Polish man setting himself on fire to protest the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. [essay]
240Above Suspicion
In the 1970 Italian film Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion a police official investigates a murder he himself has committed. [essay]
In the 1970 Italian film Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion a police official investigates a murder he himself has committed. [essay]
245Purgatorio
A man and a woman in a room. An asylum? A hospital? A prison? He has all the power to interrogate her, set her free. And she has . . . a secret. One of the two will win. Or perhaps they will both lose. [play]
A man and a woman in a room. An asylum? A hospital? A prison? He has all the power to interrogate her, set her free. And she has . . . a secret. One of the two will win. Or perhaps they will both lose. [play]
262Singing Against the Tide: The Handmaid’s Tale in Toronto
Michael Walling. [memoir]
Michael Walling. [memoir]
27399 pieces of aman
Ninety-nine individual facemasks embroidered with the ninety-nine names of Allah represent the promise of security (aman) in traditional Islamic culture. [installation]
Ninety-nine individual facemasks embroidered with the ninety-nine names of Allah represent the promise of security (aman) in traditional Islamic culture. [installation]
282Mealtime
In the early 1970s Rafa Ahmed hijacked a plane in a coordinated attack by the PFLP. Many years later she is to appear at a peace conference in Canada. fiction
In the early 1970s Rafa Ahmed hijacked a plane in a coordinated attack by the PFLP. Many years later she is to appear at a peace conference in Canada. fiction
310Things Collapse
In the year 2024, the USA Patriot Act is used to isolate thousands in secret internment camps in response to an epidemic of unknown origin. A son discovers that those like his father who were infected by the epidemic did not necessarily die of illness, but of isolation and extermination. [fiction]
In the year 2024, the USA Patriot Act is used to isolate thousands in secret internment camps in response to an epidemic of unknown origin. A son discovers that those like his father who were infected by the epidemic did not necessarily die of illness, but of isolation and extermination. [fiction]
332Suspect Culture
Artist Steven Kurtz was arrested under the USA Patriot Act
after an EMS worker attending the death of Kurtz’s wife called
the FBI about his petri dish artworks.
[graphic novel]
