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

Girl Talk

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoJune 19, 2012

I'm discomfited by my own gendered assumptions about small talk. And where did you get those shoes?

Zunguzungu

"the good order of a school" and other poetries of privatization

By Aaron BadyJune 18, 2012

Essays & Reviews

Agents Without Agency

By Rob HorningJune 18, 2012

The spylike pursuit of information rather than knowledge makes us function less as thinkers than processors, personal computers — and inefficient, low-powered ones at that. We are not the subjects who know things or intentionally produce knowledge; we are instead means of circulation — objects through which information passes with more or less noise in

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Essays & Reviews

The Plague Years

By A-J AronsteinJune 17, 2012

From Bieber videos to gang violence to blog posts, all metaphors point to virus.

Zunguzungu

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyJune 17, 2012

But what does a honey-bee look like when it GAINS a stinger? Huh, science?

Marginal Utility

Future legends

By Rob HorningJune 15, 2012

Technology doesn't improve productivity so much as intensify ideology

Essays & Reviews

Dans le Rouge

By Laurie PennyJune 15, 2012

In French, the phrase is 'Carrément dans le rouge,' meaning 'squarely in debt.' That’s why hundreds of thousands of students and union members involved in Quebec’s education strike have taken to pinning little red squares of cloth to their clothes.

South/South

Five Questions with Pierre Joris

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 15, 2012

Courage is whatever.

Shines Like Gold

Have you read Stendhal?

By imp kerrJune 15, 2012

Our misfortunes, Doctor, they come from wrong ideas we have about what happens to us.

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere 6.15.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoJune 15, 2012

NBA stripper heels, Obama's moisturizing plan, Occupy Fashion, and Gisele's search in the slums for Brazil's next top model.

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Spies Mixtape

By TNI AVJune 14, 2012

In conjunction with TNI Magazine #5, Spies, The New Inquiry A/V presents the Spies! Playlist, featuring Friends, Japandroids, The Fall, Zebra Katz and more.

Essays & Reviews

The Ways We Don’t Talk About Wealth

By Charlotte ShaneJune 14, 2012

Dollar sign by Maximus Chatsky By the end of 2012, I will most likely have made just shy of a million dollars in three years.…

The Austerity Kitchen

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse...

By Christine BaumgarthuberJune 14, 2012

"For it is only in company that eating is done justice..."

Essays & Reviews

Strangers in a Strange Land

By Xarissa HoldawayJune 13, 2012

Religious intolerance can take subtle forms in both the personal and political worlds.

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Spook'd

By Malcolm HarrisJune 12, 2012

The New Inquiry's Malcolm Harris and The Los Angeles Review of Books' Evan Kindley talked with Spook Magazine's one-man editorial team Jason Parham about the new publication's founding, goals, and forthcoming first issue.

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.