Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
This is How the World Ends @ MAD 10/4
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…
Cat Power
The first book in the subfield of Hello Kitty studies, Pink Globalization explores Kitty's kawaiipolitik
Essentially Vicious
Let us cut the fat from the bones.
Open City @ Montclair State U 10/4-5
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,…
Uwe Boll's Weaponized Cinema
Only director Uwe Boll's incompetence permits his films to make a radical critique of contemporary violence
Hollow Inside
Social media negate the idea of interiority, the sanctity of opaque motives
Anne Boyer & Matias Viegener @ The Poetry Project 10/2
A reading featuring: Anne Boyer | Works include Anne Boyer’s Good Apocalypse, The 2000?s, My Common Heart, The Romance of Happy Workers and more. Her latest work, A Form of Sabotage, was recently…
Nairobi in the Age of the World Target
There is no longer anywhere “off the grid;” you are always on someone’s grid, and you are never far from someone’s battlefield
Vampire architecture
Low-rent cousin of The Hardware. Where the diurnal undead mill about forever on shag that never quite feels dry, not ever. From the inestimable terriblerealestateagentphotos.com
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading is the one who knocks.
Electric Affinities: Close Up and Queer Modernism @ Light Industry 9/30
Light Industry Monday, September 30, 2013 at 7:30pm Electric Affinities: Close Up and Queer Modernism 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn FREE Monday, September 30 at Light…
Announcing Ayesha Siddiqi
We're delighted to welcome Ayesha Siddiqi to The New Inquiry's editorial board as Contributing Editor. Follow Ayesha at @pushinghoops To celebrate, we're offering free downloads to…
Walter White Supremacy
When I wrote this essay a year ago, there weren’t any literal Nazis in Breaking Bad and the show was about drugs. Neither of those things are true now...
Jacqueline Madrano, Retired Homemaker and Volunteer, San Antonio
On dressing well as a military wife abroad: "We wanted to show the Japanese that we were nice people after the war."
Westgate: Blowback
The innocent were warned.
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