AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Repeating Faces
Because the obscured or masked face resists representation, it can only be repeated, a phenomenon that grants it what Jacques Derrida called a “terrible power.”
Escape from Love Jail
Surveillance as a way out of the couple form
The People's Kitchen
Does the modern workplace cafeteria owe its existence to one 19th-century activist's effort to feed the laboring multitudes?
Lombroso’s Ghost
The legal claim of entrapment sounds like a way to spare the innocent from overzealous lawmen, but the history of the defense reveals it's more about the criminal than the crime
TNI Vol. 14 Editorial Note: It's Time
In this issue of the New Inquiry we look at Chinese time zones, The Clock, roofies, and more.
The Ikea Effect
If we tend to overvalue products of our own labor, what does that say about beauty work?
Reputation scores and hedged friendship
Reputation-management companies want us to see friendship as a resource to be invested wisely
Just the Facts
Conspiracy theorists seem like the polar opposite of sober technocratic pundits favored in mainstream press. But they are not so different
An exemplary revolt
Because we don't defend - we attack - there's no need to ask for the disarming of the enemy, just weapons for comrades.
Kenya’s Three Tribes
There are only three tribes in Kenya. The haves. The wanna-haves. The have-them-removed.
Sunday Reading
If you prick us, do we not read?
The Odor of Things
The political mood of Sonallah Ibrahim’s That Smell bears little resemblance to the one found in Egypt today. Why translate a 1966 novel of failed revolution now?
Beauty Blogosphere 3.1.13
Genetic surveillance face models, Team Kristen, Vaseline for Men, and the porn star next door.
Melancholy and The Infinite Sadness
Affect theory takes on sadness, but is just getting through depression good enough?
Police Mortality
Police Mortality is a Keystone Cops-flick for an era where police murders seem a near daily occurrence.
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