The New Inquiry

World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili

By Jake RommOctober 2, 2024

A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.

Essays & Reviews

Very Serious Populists

By David A. BanksDecember 20, 2013

The point of voting systems is not to highlight the best content but to build and maintain a hegemonic discourse

Essays & Reviews

The White Man's Burden

By Chloe WymaDecember 18, 2013

If male artist Chris Burden didn't exist, the New Museum had to invent him

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Field Notes

By The AppendixDecember 18, 2013

When a 1952 flight scheduled for New York crashed in the Amazon Rainforest, it kicked off a race to find survivors between a PanAm exec, a Brazilian governor, and a Florida psychic

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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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The Floral Is the Political

By Tara AghdashlooDecember 17, 2013

An interview with Iranian artist Shirin Neshat

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Interiors - Annie Hall

By The New InquiryDecember 16, 2013

Woody Allen has always been interested in spatial configurations within his frames; known for occasionally having his characters walk outside the frame...

Essays & Reviews

Room to Despair

By Laurie PennyDecember 16, 2013

In the U.K., capital’s casualties are losing even the space to go mad

Features

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyDecember 15, 2013

Inside, joining in cigarette decide to prove an on and on

Zunguzungu

All Presidents

By Aaron BadyDecember 13, 2013

The Nelson Mandela that Barack Obama remembers seems to have not done a great many things.

Essays & Reviews

Commies for Christ

By Nathan SchneiderDecember 13, 2013

In Giorgio Agamben's The Highest Poverty, the monastery and the non-law of monastic codes suggest an alternative approach to life in late capitalism

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Everything Is a Target

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviDecember 12, 2013

An interview of physicist and filmmaker Peter Galison by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

The Beheld

You're Just Jelly

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoDecember 12, 2013

In which I take an episode of "South Park" about digital photo editing far too seriously.

Essays & Reviews

Splay Attention

By Brian DroitcourDecember 11, 2013

I don’t think it’s bad when artists treat me as if I’m there. In fact, I’m more sympathetic to those who do. Because I am.

Essays & Reviews

Contemporary Scottish Friction

By Cal FlynDecember 10, 2013

The coming Scottish independence vote has given new energy to the would-be national literary culture

Double Take

Dreezus

By Teju ColeDecember 9, 2013

I know I got a bad reputation. Walk around always mad reputation.

The Austerity Kitchen

Domestic Unrest

By Christine BaumgarthuberDecember 9, 2013

The little-known history behind the current craze for all things domestic

Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019

An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli

Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019

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.

Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018

A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons

Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017

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.

Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017

The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.

Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017

The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over

Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017

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.