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The Growing Militarization and Cyber-surveillance of the U.S./Mexico Border

Pondering the VERGE: Canada Style

Renaissance, Tijuana-style!

La Frontera on Fire! Narco Wars Roiling South Texas Borderlands

CHILI and JALAPEÑO Root Out Mexicans and Terrorists (Same Difference) Along the US/MEXICO Border

hit the image for the link! a huge dip of the proverbial sombrero to ace artist IZEL VARGAS for bringing this desmadre to my attention....

"CHILI" may well deserve a chapter of its own in Eyegiene.

La Guerra en la Frontera: Ciudad Juarez and El Paso in Newseek

Gracias to regular contributor David O. García for the link! Hit the image to your right for the story.

A Brilliant Meditation on the Border: Adam Simpson

My first publication was on Autobiography at la frontera, the border, and I am presently editing a book to be entitled Bordered Sexualities: Bodies on the Verge of a Nation, way overdue--my apologies to the contributors--and so you might guess I am a sucker for, and totally obsessed by, anything that deals with frontiers, borders, etc. You might say I am always already on the verge of falling for or through the verge--forgive the Derridean syntax. In any event, I stumbled across the work of Adam Simpson and his Boundaries project. Go here and here for details. The "play" of his figures across and thru boundaries is mesmerizing.

Thanks to KPBS for the Rerun: Orson Welles's Touch of Evil

KPBS, our local San Diego NPR affiliate, recently replayed an interview with me on Touch of Evil and Tex[t]-Mex; click the image below to tune in!