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.
Thoughts on a Word: Fine
For all the elegance implied with the word "fine," it can also reek of: She thinks she’s all that.
My Norm is More Normal Than Yours: Academic Tweeting and Loose Fish
From a handful of tweets, to a storify collecting them, to blog posts, to an article in Inside Higher Ed documenting it as "news": “The Academic Twitterazi” had now become a thing.
Rank and File Countrypolitan
When country musicians tried to protect the integrity of their genre in the 1970s against the likes of John Denver, it wasn’t merely aesthetic protest but an organized labor movement
The Animal Model of Inescapable Shock
If an animal has previously suffered escapable shock, and then she suffers inescapable shock, she will be happier than if she has previously not suffered escapable shock — for if she hasn’t, she will only know about being shocked inescapably.
Fragments on microcelebrity
Microcelebrity evokes something small but it marks an excess, a need for more, a hunger, a dissatisfaction that can't be resolved by social media.
TNI Vol. 9 Editorial Note: On Music, Utopia, and Failure
We’re big enough fans of pop music to know that sometimes the promise of happiness is not always betrayed.
Pretty/Funny (Guest Post)
A beautiful woman has to pretend she isn't being watched; a funny woman proves consistently that she's aware of herself in the world. It leads to a viewer wondering, “Wait, so are you aware that each hair toss drives people wild too? How much of this are you picking up on?”
Disappearing Shanghai
All photography is a record of a lost past. Photography does not share music’s ability to be fully remade each time it is presented, nor…
TNI Barter Rules
The New Inquiry will hold a subscription barter contest the first week of every month. Between Noon and Midnight EST on the announcement day, we…
Sunday Reading
l.e. long Banner hanging above the Port of Oakland during the November 2nd General Strike #feministvigilantegangs Black women shaping feminist theory This is how to…
Sex and the Single Girl: The Life and Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown @ Housing Works 10/23
Helen Gurley Brown, long-time Cosmopolitan editor, was the most influential women’s magazine editor of her generation, and arguably, of all time. Cat Marnell, Moe Tkacik, Edith…
Dragged Down by the Stone
Pink Floyd's Animals: Most depressing album ever, or call to "cruel optimism?"
Beauty Blogosphere 9.28.12
Ukraine feminists gone wild, the makeup mishap that literally painted the town red, "flower men," zombie beauty, and how Vogue bit it big-time twice in just one week.
I Hate Myself And I Want To Die @ Spectacle Theater
Join TNI at Spectacle Theater on Monday, October 1st to celebrate the release of our new magazine, Concept Album, with a screening of I Hate…
Animals on Trial
A chronological list of animal prosecutions from the ninth to the nineteenth century.
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