Fun With Agamben!
The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
Pose: Death & Home
Episode 5 and 6 of Pose form a mini-arc that focuses on death and home. In episode 5, Blanca’s bio-mother dies and in episode 6,…
Kill Rock Stars
Jeff Jackson’s new novel is one we’ve all heard before
A Woman Under the Influence
Mary MacLane's spectacular moods first fueled, then failed her
Miracle Devices
The medical-device industry has been mobilized against the patients it purportedly serves
The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
Top or Bottom: How do we desire?
What do queer memes of a top shortage reveal about the racialized orders of desire and new directions for gay critique?
The Judge From Central Casting
Repeat a word enough and it starts to sound so weird that sense dissolves into questions about language itself. Take the word “life”: Why are…
A Reading from ‘Gharavi’s Bio’
TNI contributor and blogger Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Brian Droitcour
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
by Allison C. Meier
On Quitting
Most often when I talk about building a life, I have meant something closer to saying that I cannot imagine—or desire—a life here.
Vol. 68 Editor’s Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
How Contempt Became a Genre
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies
Conversación Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation of The Undercommons