The Year of Magical Thinking
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC
Marlon Bundo
Walmart Plots ‘Super Intense’ Crypto
Anti-5G necklaces
the question of where memory information is stored in the brain remains unresolved
People Are Taking Out Loans Against Their NFTs — And Defaulting
The Only Instrumental Record Ever Banned by US Radio
Whirlpool of the Masses
The biopolitical response to COVID extends the reactionary orientalism that characterized the 1865 cholera outbreak in Mecca
Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital
Plague Existentialism
A Tentative COVID-19 Self-Quarantine Reading List
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
Lessons From a New History of ACT UP: An Interview with Sarah Schulman
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power began as a revolutionary liberation movement––so what happened?
Catastrophe Capitalism: An Interview with Peer Illner
The response to state austerity must go beyond absorbing its outsourced labor
Vol. 75 Editors’ Note: Pandemic
This is the editor’s note for TNI Vol. 75: PANDEMIC
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Gentle Protests: An Interview with Andreas Malm
It might be necessary to consider escalating
Dollar Stores
“No six-foot social distancing rule unless you have a 6-foot dick.”
Zero-click attacks
Elon Musk’s testimony paused as Lawyer vomits in jury box
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks