Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
The Princess and the Brain
Kate Middleton and the limits of choice feminism
Batter of Perception
The virtue of unleavened impressions
The End of Plastic
Peak oil means peak petroleum products, which could mean the golden age of plastic fabrication is already past.
The Two Standards of Beauty
On the inevitability of imperfection
Whips With Friends
BDSM dating sites try to bring light bwhere we enjoy darkness
An assortment
Riffing off Autumn's head-to-toe theme
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theater 2/20
Film As a Subversive Art is a monthly screening series being put on by The New Inquiry and Spectacle Theater in honor of Amos Vogel’s…
Interiors - Amour
Michael Haneke sets his film within a single location, a Parisian apartment, which was constructed in a soundstage...
Dating Games
Dating is objectifying and uncomfortable no matter where it’s happening
Too Brilliant to Bathe
Does soap kill brain cells?
James Wagner's "highest aspiration"
It’s interesting that we are upset when the president of Emory University talks about the 3/5ths compromise.
Social-media redlining and "social enforcement"
Banks are beginning to determine creditworthiness based on social-media presence
Five Questions with Jerome Rothenberg
Maps mean the legislated or regulated reality that the powerful create & enforce against the powerless. The results for those ground down by them are devastating.
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