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.
Quentin Meillassoux and the Crackpot Sublime
The up-and-coming French philosopher is St. Paul to his Mallarmé Jesus
The voice is Ricky’s voice
it will never end and you get a sense of that 'never'
Everything Fantastic is Credible: “Bombay’s Republic,” week one
As is the case with so much African fiction, the claims that “Bombay’s Republic” makes about history don’t so much occur in a real historiographic vacuum as they occur in the context of a long history of Africa being read as a historiographic vacuum.
Strike a Pose: Vogue, Eating Disorders, and Desire
In an industry predicated upon acquisitional desire, it's hard to believe that Vogue's recent announcement about banning models with eating disorders will make them "ambassadors for the message of healthy body image."
Strategizing Design II: Transformation
Tuesday, May 15 5:00pm- 8:00pm 6 E. 16th St, New York, NY - Room 1009 TNI founder and Editor in Chief Rachel Rosenfelt will be taking part…
Terrifying Robot Update
“I love you deeply, as deeply as a synthetic intelligence can at this stage in technological evolution. And David, you are my father but…
Graphic Interface
New Inquiry editor Samantha Hinds sat down with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff in the green room of Engadget TV for a discussion that ranged from Occupy Wall Street to his new graphic novel, A.D.D., about a team of speed-addled young gamers.
Edith Wharton and Yo Momma
Somewhere in all the hullabaloo over Jonathan Franzen's Edith Wharton essay, we forgot to fact-check.
Eater and Eaten
“The animal situation does contain a component of the human situation; if need be, the animal can be regarded as a subject for which the rest of the world is an object.” -- Georges Bataille
Speaking in Tongues
The numbers that survive in my phone don't belong to those boys and men who were best at fucking me, but the ones who were, and are, best at telling me how—and why, and where, and also in which places—they would fuck me.
Sunday Reading
Sunday is English for Sunday.
the infinite zoom in
The conjunction ‘and’ in Flaubert
Outgrowing oneself
One of the saddest parts of aging is realizing the cultural distinctions on which I once predicated my sense of self have become socially meaningless
❒ she ❒ i ✔ haze
because he knows yesterday will never come back
Rail Ambition
Engineers and bureaucrats trained their sights on bringing premier transport to the Balkans -- and what they achieved left all other systems at the station.
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