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.
Gills, Gills, Gills
Here's your giant decorative aquarium.
Um, Sunday Reading
Monday is the new Sunday.
2012: The Year of the Muppet
2012 was one of the most high-stakes, high-drama years for muppets in recent history. Atossa Araxia Abrahamian reports.
New lows
We observed a calm expert of all things unjust and inevitable, whose principal occupation was to confiscate the forces of nuance and to derive, from this larceny, pride and grandeur.
Natural's Not In It
How do you make a food fad appeal to libertarians? Invoke human nature.
Seeing Red
Despite the bleak imaginary landscape of food deserts, urban nutritional politics is all about color.
To what lying necromancer have I not been a fortune?
Not even when the debt collectors signed the release form to collect the roughly 14 pounds of smoke worth salvaging from the fire.
Blogs Round Up
Highlights from this week in blogs at TNI
Sunday Reading
Brevity is the soul of Sunday.
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 3
Outside, the streets were full, seriously fucking full, of wolves.
Gut Reaction
The pleasure of the table surpasses even that of the text
Apocalypse Then
The year that was, jammed anxiously into a 1:07 music video
The Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 1
To celebrate the conclusion of our subscription drive, TNI offers all readers free, downloadable guidebook collecting Michael Seidenberg's complete unsolicited advice column from the first year of The New Inquiry Magazine, for your reference on today’s apocalypse and the many more to come.
2. Consumed by Abstraction
We may not have all died today, but 12/21/12 has indeed marked our passage over a very particular sort of event horizon: we have been overtaken by our own abstractions.
Beauty Blogosphere 12.21.12
An evo-psych approach to Santa's sex appeal, smile-scan technology, playing Helen of Troy, and beauty tips for the apocalypse.
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