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.
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 4
Off the edge of the highway, space is identical to the elderly, to their insatiable hunger for time, for all the wet of youth.
The First Man
Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes's final novel is a covertly optimistic satire of modern Mexico.
Sunday Reading
Sunday is a Country.
Jasper Bernes Poetry Reading: Sunday, January 20
Jasper Bernes is a poet and author whose work on Occupy has appeared in The New Inquiry. He has published three books of poetry: Starsdown…
Wicked Pictures
These are photographs not merely of human cruelty but of human helplessness. They remind us (we do not wish to be reminded) that there will always be a minority of people whose luck is bad in the extreme.
World of Weathercraft
Government weather management falls somewhere between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact. But even if we could control the weather, would we control ourselves?
Beauty Blogosphere 1.18.13
Fruity beauty, baby perfume, the tyranny of "natural beauty," and more.
The Austerity Kitchen on the Radio
Home ec table talk coming to you from Bushwick
TNI Rex (3)
A bi-weekly round up of recommendations from around the interwebs by TNI’s editors and staff.
An Attempt at Exhausting a Movement
Excerpts from The End of Oulipo? An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement.
Masters of Suspicion
A review of Bruno Bosteel’s Marx and Freud in Latin America
False wins and the machine zone
Zoning out while playing slot machines is not so different from entering the "zone" of positive-psychology's flow states
Interiors - Se7en
The detectives navigate through physical spaces for the entire film – dark hallways and alleyways, disorganized rooms and offices, crowded buildings and eateries...
The Roads Not Taken
By remaking the novel, On The Road makes Kerouac's mistakes over again
Gamifying Beauty
Makeover apps combine gamified play’s curtailment of actual playfulness with gamified labor’s trivialization of actual work, forming a neither-nor zone robbed of both the joyful possibilities and the political significance of beauty work.
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