AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Hex Before Marriage
Turning on the charm used to mean something quite different
So French
On the insouciance of thousand-dollar moisturizer.
Social discovery vs. sociability
Social relations are most pleasurable when they are pointless
Don't Be a Stranger
Social media keep old friends close, but the Web used to be for strangers
"Real beauty comes from within"
When concerns about cosmetic safety are not what they seem
Single Servings
Dating companies hope to replace our search for love with a search for better searching
Tree Sitting
MOOC’s are a word for forgetting that universities have never grown without being planted.
"Never could I tell him it was him."
How Rufus Wainwright and George Costanza explain female heterosexuality
"What Was The Date" @ The Kitchen 2/25
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…
Sex in Public
Two dating columnists talk occupational hazards
The flayed compass, or ENJOY / THIS / STRIP / BABY
So that when a body throws itself onto the tracks / like a only a body would / it could be routed around / as only a body can
"How many avocadoes is too many avocadoes a week?"
Gwyneth Paltrow and the avocado menace
What Would a Busy Blogger Do?
The time has come, the blogger said, to talk of many things—actually, just one, which is a need for a bit of time off. Specifically,…
Desiring Machines
A Valentine for Félix Guattari
2/8/13
A short story.
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