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.
When Lovers Die
Michael Haneke’s Amour isn’t an ironically titled film about entropy, acrimony, withering, or divorce. It's about storybook romance and true love. And just like true love, it's filled with violence, horror, and death.
TNI Vol. 12 Editorial Note: Hail or High Water
Everybody talks about the weather —“but nobody ever does anything about it,” jokes Charles Dudley Warner. Everybody talks about it, Ulrike Meinhof repeats, but "we don’t.”
How to Talk About the Weather
Eco-critc Ursula Heise on the narratives of climate change and the evolving challenges environmentalism faces in telling its story
Poet-Taster (1): James Arthur
Culinary verse to nourish you through the work week
Book Review: The Beauty Experiment
If you see the Buddha, tweeze the Buddha.
Sunday Reading
Would a reading on any other day smell as sweet?
Magical Surpluses
What if abundance really is your destiny?
Beauty Blogosphere 1.4.12
Beard transplants, perfumes of exile, models with biceps, and more.
Presenting: Theorizing The Web 2013
This coming March 1 and 2, The New Inquiry will be proud to cosponsor the third year of the Theorizing The Web conference, and its…
Scenes Resembling Civil War
Before there was the cancer of Occupy, there were the German Autonomen, street-fighting anarchists who battled riot police through the 80s. A new translation of Fire and Flames, a history of the struggle, shines a light on this proto-Black Bloc.
TNI REX (2)
A bi-weekly round up of recommendations from around the interwebs by TNI’s editors and staff.
Dissatisfaction City
The Las Vegas casino is a machine for social control that works not through repression but deinhibition, rationalizing our yearning for the expensive and impossible
A moment of dreaming about higher education
"Thy life is a flitting state, a tent for the night."
2012
I'm not saying this year happened in the passive voice, but I'm not completely sure it didn't. So let me purge my memory by voiding…
Evan Calder Williams and Maryam Monalisa Gharavi: The Letters Reading
A full recording of two of TNI's bloggers reading letters in a bookstore basement
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