Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Wall of Names
The list of names grows before cartridge ink has dried on the page
Little Orphan Nellie
Nellie Bly was the first “girl reporter,” but as the exception, she was always playing by someone else’s rules
This Week in Art Crime
An art thief steals for the love of art; a museum cashier gets a harsh sentence from an art-loving judge; half of all art in circulation is forged
Run, Boy, Run
“Money, Power, Glory” says I can fuck (with) you, but I will also destroy the whole world that makes “you” possible
The Lights Are On but Nobody's Home
Who Needs the Internet of Things? Not you, but corporations who want to imprison you in their technological ecosystem
Full-Time Daughter
Lana Del Rey’s Americana shows its demand for a feminine desire that knows how to long for death
I see no better place
"My life has changed direction," said sun-beaten Thiago Ferreira, a 26-year-old convicted drug trafficker who is helping renovate the Belo Horizonte soccer stadium
Appetitive Affinities
On the inaccessibility of certain summer flavors
Un(der)seen Cinema: The Decline of Western Civilization
Long before she made Wayne's World, in 1979 Penelope Spheeris made a documentary about LA punk's first wave.
Turn Down for What?
In imagining a homogenized future labor force, accelerationism ignores how capital opportunistically sustains difference to survive
Inessential No. 3
When emergency is normalized
Sunday Reading
Which nationalism cliche will you endorse for today's friendly fascism
#NotAllCollectives
Trembling for my sleep forever when I reflect that international justice isn't.
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Thousands of subscriptions, 30 magazines, and three supplements later, the New Inquiry is committed to remaining ad and paywall free. It’s a decision that maintains…
Ms. America
Lana Del Rey's 'Merica is one with just as many symbols, but it requires far less cognitive dissonance.
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