Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
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.
Manhood, Womanhood, And Their Mutual Interrelations
A selection of illustrations from the extremely bizarre Creative and Sexual Science, or, Manhood, Womanhood, and their Mutual Interrelations by O.S. Fowler
Labor Models
If we learn to frame modeling as an industry—one with work hazards for its laborers—we might be able to prevent eating disorders from being one of those hazards.
What Was The Date?
Tonight join The New Inquiry at The Kitchen to celebrate the release of our 13th issue: <3. With men, courtship, and dating all ending at the…
Girls, Belated
Welcome back!, she said to herself upon logging into her blog's CMS for the first time in two weeks. It was great to take…
Sunday Reading
Oscar the Grouch.
A Country Torn: The Cicero March, 1966
Lucas led activists through Cicero to protest restrictions in housing laws. White residents of Cicero respond with vitriolic jeers as the police struggle to prevent a riot.
Towards a 'Moral' Assassination Model
In the ‘fight against terror’ by the Most Moral Army in the World, the un/official legal and academic enforcer’s of the the Israeli army’s ‘ethical code’ are indispensable salespeople.
A friendly reminder
Our candidates found no place on any list. Subversives don't vote.
U.S.Ai.
In America, Ai Weiwei isn't a dissident, he's a foreign policy asset and an artist of art's limits
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