The Founder
Unleash your parasitic disruption on the world until it consumes everything and you too
Liberalism is Dead
Silicon Valley’s techtopian libertarianism points to a disruptive left fascism for the 21st century
Not for You
The growth in consumption inequality means more movies are made for the dwindling numbers of top earners
Discipline and Pleasure
Is addiction a deeper form of distraction or a desperate escape from it? What the video game Dota 2 can teach us
Weight Gains
Capitalist agriculture has found the best spot to store its surplus: in the bodies of workers
Film Premiere: Masha Tupitsyn's Love Sounds (11/4 + 11/5)
"Auditory landscapes can also be interpolations between space and time, space and reality, the psycho-social and the geographic, and temporality and memory. The act of…
In Defense of Looting
For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting.
The End of the World as We Know It
Ancient Apocalypse films use the past to project a reactionary present into the future
How Can You Watch That Stuff?
Mixed-martial-arts fighters take a terrible beating not only from each other but also from the UFC’s labor practices
The Daddest Place on Earth
The low-budget unsanctioned film Escape from Tomorrow is a better-than-documentary look inside the oxymoronic Magic Kingdom
Uwe Boll's Weaponized Cinema
Only director Uwe Boll's incompetence permits his films to make a radical critique of contemporary violence
Film As a Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theater 5/15
FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: MAY 2013 The subversive and revolutionary cinema that emerged from Eastern Europe in the sixties and seventies is an incredibly…
Film as a Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theater 4/30
FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: APRIL 2013 The revolutionary moment of the sixties is as dead as anything, and good riddance. Though we may yearn…
Excuses, Excuses
At what point do we recognize an enemy as not merely adversarial, but existential?
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theatre 1/31
Film As a Subversive Art is a montly program being put on by The New Inquiry and Spectacle Theater in honor of Amos Vogel’s book…
Jasper Bernes Poetry Reading: Sunday, January 20
Jasper Bernes is a poet and author whose work on Occupy has appeared in The New Inquiry. He has published three books of poetry: Starsdown…