Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 25
Some of the more skeptical out there might begin to wonder why they need advice for an end of time that doesn’t seem to be getting here.
Vol. 24 Editors’ Note: War by Other Means
Sports lends itself to abstraction. A whole baseball game gracefully nestles into a box score; football and basketball playbooks look like charts for a free-jazz board game...
Vol. 23 Editors’ Note: Shelter
We are always a target, whether we feel the cross hairs on us or not. There are no shelters. There is no fortress...
Vol. 22 Editors’ Note: Self-Help
Happiness, fitness, long-life, wisdom, creativity: all these things have been just within reach since Marcus Aurelius. Yet, somehow, we don’t seem to be getting any better...
Vol. 21 Editors’ Note: Witches
“Witch” stands for all those unnamable shadow acts of disappearance and withdrawal, self-cultivation and self-medication that elude the social and sexual order...
Vol. 20 Editors’ Note: Off-Brand
We are told we must be clothed, and then that our clothes are not good enough...
Vol. 19 Editors’ Note: “Art”
Central to the project of contemporary art—the discourse about it and the market for it—is the question of what actually constitutes art this year, this week, in general.
Vol. 18 Editors’ Note: Family Planning
The family is less a haven in a heartless world than an arrangement that has focused efforts at social improvement on relationships supposedly spun of love and affection.
Vol. 17 Editors’ Note: Rules of the Game
The ultimate game is revolution: new rules, no rules.
Vol. 16 Editors’ Note: The World as We Know It
It's the rise of the world as we know it, and we feel terrified.
Spring Break Forever
Presenting The New Inquiry's first free supplement, a pdf collection of eight critical essays on Harmony Korine's Disneyland dystopia Spring Breakers.
Terrifying Robot Update!
Hahaha, oh that tickles, stop climbing on me clothbot, hahaha, oh Clothbot, you’re the funniest, haha…wait, what is that, what is that you’ve got there…oh…
Terrifying Robot Update!
The good thing about the fact that I’ll never sleep again after watching this video is that I wont have nightmares where I’m trapped in…
Terrifying Robot Update
“I love you deeply, as deeply as a synthetic intelligence can at this stage in technological evolution. And David, you are my father but…