Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Mind Games Forever
Eric Berne’s Games People Play offers a blueprint for making passive-aggressive manipulation into compulsive fun
Sunday Reading
Today's reading comes from the book of Sunday.
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 18
It’s always been obvious that the more concentration you put into anything, the richer the return, but the trick to the big payoff is going deep.
Beauty Blogosphere Summer Solstice
All the made-up young men, Ed Snowden's pretty lady, American Indian fashion, and how to whiten your teeth with banana peels.
Soundtracks for Virtual War
The Kuwaiti musician Fatima Al Qadiri composes possible themes for the Gulf War video game of her childhood
‘At Last, We Are Alive’
Five P’s: public space, property, politicians, police, and press.
A Summer Fête: The New Inquiry's First Annual Summer Benefit
The New Inquiry and the Gihon Foundation invite you to our first annual summer benefit.
Total Information Awareness
The NSA's recent history shows that PRISM is hardly an aberration, but rather the most recent program in the state's continuous search for total knowledge capture
Narrow bridges
About a bridge in Bucks County
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
If you spend a lifetime housing your internal surveillance system, you might not be terribly surprised when you find that there are external surveyors you hadn't considered.
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
A conversation with not-novelist Masha Tupitsyn about her new book Love Dog.
A Week Late and A Story Short: "Whispering Trees"
This is not going to be a very good blog post.
Simplicity, Voluntary or Otherwise
In colonial America, something as simple as a bed or spoon divided the haves from the have-nots
Interiors - The Shining
The audience is immediately presented with this space is detached from civilization; there are only a handful of scenes that take place outside of the walls over the hotel. It’s within this controlled space that Kubrick sets his film....
Playing Outside
If video games want cultural legitimacy, designers will have to concede it's not all about fun
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