AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
TNI Rex (4)
A bi-weekly round up of recommendations from around the interwebs by TNI’s editors and staff.
1/30/13
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Permission to Flirt
My two cents on Rosea Lake's "Judgment"—and what it told me about my own wardrobe and playing by the rules.
Mr. Kristof and His Hugs
At the Nicholas D. Kristof Center For Kids Who Can't Hug Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, Nick Kristof wants you to hug the pain away.
Excuses, Excuses
At what point do we recognize an enemy as not merely adversarial, but existential?
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theatre 1/31
Film As a Subversive Art is a montly program being put on by The New Inquiry and Spectacle Theater in honor of Amos Vogel’s book…
Climate Changed
A warmed globe needs new writers to guide us through it
Got No Shame, Got No Pride
Rainbow's Down to Earth as queer theoretical intervention. A guest post by J. Temperance
Representing Dissent: Political Movements and Graphic Narrative @ CUNY Grad Center 2/15
Has the successful transmission of images become essential to engaging in and sustaining dissent? In our mediatized world, issues of visual representation lie increasingly at…
To the Squirrels
In "his" new novel, Glenn Beck tell us one we've heard before
Poet-Taster (2): Jay Baron Nicorvo
Culinary verse to nourish you through the work week
Sunday Reading
Ther is no Sunday, only Sunday.
Exorcisms in Style
When we talk about style in writing we're talking about branding
Promotional
A young man is embroiled in a minor dispute on a bus.
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