The New Inquiry

World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili

By Jake RommOctober 2, 2024

A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere 8.24.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoAugust 24, 2012

Phyllis Diller, what a runner looks like, the newest victims of eating disorders, and the oldest bra in the world.

Essays & Reviews

No Epiphanies Whatsoever

By Jane HuAugust 23, 2012

In her online columns for Vice, ex-beauty editor Cat Marnell is set to self-destruct, saving her readers the trouble. But is the future we can’t imagine for her the perfect desire we yearn for ourselves? We can have it and long for it at the same time

Zunguzungu

Trigger Warning Week

By Laurie PennyAugust 22, 2012

A guest-post from Laurie Penny: "Rape. From the Latin, 'rapere,' to take or snatch. "

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The Austerity Kitchen

Blind Ambition

By Christine BaumgarthuberAugust 22, 2012

The sightless bell-ringer of the Scottish burg of Dumfries pursued a vision of industry that left his fellow townspeople blinking with disbelief

News

Mike Thomsen's Levitate The Primate @ McNally Jackson 8/28

By The New InquiryAugust 22, 2012

Join TNI & Friends Tuesday 7pm at McNally Jackson Books for a reading from featured contributor Mike Thomsen's new book Levitate The Primate: Handjobs, Internet…

The Beheld

Beach Body Bingo (and Me on the Today Show)

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoAugust 22, 2012

My thighs, and four million people.

Essays & Reviews

Hard Blows

By Natasha Vargas-CooperAugust 22, 2012

Camille Paglia’s greatest merit as a critic is the fact that her literary analysis can double as self-help.

Essays & Reviews

Queer, Interrupted

By Tegan EanelliAugust 21, 2012

Cops have no business telling queer youth “it gets better” while they protect the regime that makes it worse. Better to bash back than to wait.

Socialism and/or Barbarism

Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 20, 2012

Domestic work today means to literally give over your own life to that of others (kids and husband), to their spaces, to their times, to their rhythms.

Uncategorized

Barnard's Universal Criminal Cipher Code

By The Public Domain ReviewAugust 20, 2012

All images cropped from a microfilm of Barnard's Universal Criminal Cipher Code for Telegraphic Communication between Chiefs of Police, Sheriffs, Marshals and other Peace Officers of the…

South/South

How to Shop Better?

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviAugust 20, 2012

There is something primal about going shopping and going to war. Both come from a hunger to be our best, to compete, to exercise a right or a belief.

Socialism and/or Barbarism

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 19, 2012

Zunguzungu

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyAugust 19, 2012

Frank Pasquale: Wall Street grandees need to have their net worth on the line. Rethinking the corporation after Enron, Goldman, and Milken. Peachtree pooh-bahs. High-speed Internet only for…

Socialism and/or Barbarism

Seriously, go to hell

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 18, 2012

What a coincidence! I was just going to suggest that the young jobless should impale Prince Charles' head on a 20 foot spike and raise it over Westminster Hall, as was done with Cromwell's head.

Socialism and/or Barbarism

This trial is a “so-called” trial. And I am not afraid of you.

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 17, 2012

"The art of creating the image of an epoch does not know winners or losers." Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, saying something of extreme importance Infamy to any…

Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019

An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli

Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019

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.

Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018

A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons

Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017

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.

Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017

The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.

Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017

The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over

Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017

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.