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The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe”

By Anna FeigenbaumApril 23, 2018
The idea that tear gas is "safe" was produced through violent experimentation on working-class colonial subjects
Essays & Reviews

Why Witches Can’t Have It All

By Durga Chew-BoseOctober 8, 2013
The Hollywood witch’s real oath isn’t to the goddess or Satan—it’s to have and to hold
News

Suspiria @ Anthology Film Archives 10/8

By The New InquiryOctober 7, 2013
On the occasion of the first-ever NYC concerts (Oct 6 & 7) by Goblin – Dario Argento’s favored composers – Anthology and Malastrana Film Series…
Features

Vol. 21 Editors’ Note: Witches

By The New InquiryOctober 7, 2013
“Witch” stands for all those unnamable shadow acts of disappearance and withdrawal, self-cultivation and self-medication that elude the social and sexual order...
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Shines Like Gold

Triple-Decker Weekly, 79

By imp kerrOctober 6, 2013
New study finds that superstitions actually do "reverse" perceived bad fortune
Sunday Reading, Uncategorized

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyOctober 6, 2013
As the old Aztec proverb has it, "When the going gets weird, the weird get Sunday Reading."
Socialism and/or Barbarism

the weapon of the disinherited

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 4, 2013
grazie, Alberto
News

Page Turner: The AAWW Food and Books Festival @ Roulette/The YWCA 10/5

By The New InquiryOctober 4, 2013
[rlinstallation by Nicola Lopez[/rl] Half block party, half book bash, PAGE TURNER: The AAWW Food and Books Festival is an unforgettable all-day free public fair…
Uncategorized

TNI Vol. 21: Witches

By The New InquiryOctober 3, 2013
The New Inquiry dives head-first into the feminine occult with our October theme: witches. Here's a preview of what's in store.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Prends garde: à jouer au fantôme, on le devient

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 2, 2013
This assimilation to space is necessarily accompanied by a decline in the feeling of personality and life. It should be noted in any case that…
News

This is How the World Ends @ MAD 10/4

By The New InquiryOctober 2, 2013
Director Gregg Araki describes this pilot episode of a never-realized television show, This is How the Worlds Ends(2000), as Twin Peaks for MTV. Dancing-midget rock fans…
Essays & Reviews

Cat Power

By Ben GabrielOctober 2, 2013
The first book in the subfield of Hello Kitty studies, Pink Globalization explores Kitty's kawaiipolitik
Zunguzungu

Essentially Vicious

By Aaron BadyOctober 2, 2013
Let us cut the fat from the bones.
News

Open City @ Montclair State U 10/4-5

By The New InquiryOctober 1, 2013
Featuring Vijay Iyer, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jonathan Finlayson, Adam O’Farrill, Graham Haynes, Steve Coleman, Hafez Modirzadeh, Mark Shim, Elena Pinderhughes, Josh Roseman, Tyshawn Sorey, Mat Maneri,…
Essays & Reviews

Uwe Boll’s Weaponized Cinema

By Willie OsterweilOctober 1, 2013
Only director Uwe Boll's incompetence permits his films to make a radical critique of contemporary violence
Marginal Utility

Hollow Inside

By Rob HorningSeptember 30, 2013
Social media negate the idea of interiority, the sanctity of opaque motives

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