...In July 2011, she was fired from the paper entirely. Willie Osterweil is a writer, editor, and worker living in New York. The two spoke in December about what it...
...the most devastating mistake would be believing you saw two different forms of political thought. Willie Osterweil is The New Inquiry’s film editor and a writer living in Brooklyn....
...New Inquiry editor Willie Osterweil and members of the Anti-Banality Union, makers of Police Mortality. Tuesday, April 30 Spectacle Theater 124 S. 3rd st Brooklyn, NY 7:30, 10pm $5...
...at 7:30 and one at 10:00PM, each featuring different films and introductions by New Inquiry editor Willie Osterweil and members of the Anti-Banality Union, the filmmakers behind Unclear Holocaust and...
Punk: An Aesthetic is a beautiful, excellently curated book of punk photographs, zines, posters, album covers, and ephemera. It focuses on 1976-77 but features a broad collection...
Käthe Kollwitz, Death and a Woman Struggling for a Child, 1911 Drugs are the perfect consumer product. Almost always expensive, they are useless beyond their consumption, the...
[r]Image by Imp Kerr, original photo by John Dominis[/r] When we talk about surveillance, we make a connection, almost automatically, between surveillance and crime, and another between...
For most of America's history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting. As protests in Ferguson continued unabated one week after the police...
First, some context. Born four days apart, Hitler and Chaplin are the two faces of the 20th century: the genocidal fascist tyrant and the lovable, socialist clown, both...
Christopher John Bostwick, The Undertaker's Revenge: (BAD NEWS!), 2010-2011 Dystopia and apocalypse are narrative tools of the political fantasist. Almost without exception they invoke a political and...
Mixed-martial-arts fighters take a terrible beating not only from each other but also from the UFC’s labor practices During its transition from dystopian freak-show to mainstream sporting...
Is addiction a deeper form of distraction or a desperate escape from it? What the video game Dota 2 can teach us DEPRESSION and addiction are hard to...
Merry Moor Winnett Dumbo (1975) via Smithsonian The low-budget unsanctioned film Escape from Tomorrow is a better-than-documentary look inside the Freudian neurotics of the Magic Kingdom When...
Richard Prince, Untitled (Publicity), 2001 (detail) Ancient Apocalypse films use the past to project a reactionary present into the future. When we think apocalypse, we tend to...