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.

Essays & Reviews

Your Friends and Neighbors

By Matt PearceApril 23, 2012

Is Anyone Up works like this: You have naked photos of somebody you know.

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere 4.23.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoApril 23, 2012

Toilet-seat-cover millinery, smelling like Donald Trump, thinspo, and the contradiction of modesty fashion bloggers.

Zunguzungu

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyApril 22, 2012

Why? Because it's there.

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Dark Nights of The Universe @ Recess Art

By TNIApril 21, 2012

et nox sicut dies illuminabitur April 26–29, Classes nightly at 7pm Recess, 41 Grand Street, Ground Floor Night of Nights The Public School NY presents four-night theoretical…

Marginal Utility

Notes on "Notes on Hype"

By Rob HorningApril 20, 2012

Hype is as much a model for personal conduct as it is promotion for a particular good

The Austerity Kitchen

No animal escapes the cruel knife in the end...

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 20, 2012

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing..."

South/South

Drones are Paranoid Androids

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviApril 19, 2012

There is an entire cottage industry of Bush-era movie-making. If a Michael Bay or a Spielberg were to concoct the spectacle of a drone movie, what would it even show?

Marginal Utility

Heroic tedium and anti-nostalgia

By Rob HorningApril 19, 2012

This album doesn't suck

Essays & Reviews

Facebook in the Age of Facebook

By Rob HorningApril 19, 2012

How social media help naturalize network-driven capitalism and the sort of flexible, endlessly productive subject it requires

Zunguzungu

Reading Katehi: The Pepper Spray Chancellor

By Aaron BadyApril 19, 2012

“our context at the time was seeing what’s happening in the City of Oakland...my fear is a longterm occupation with a number of tents where we have an undergraduate student and a non-affiliate and there’s an incident. And then I’m reporting to a parent that a nonaffiliate has done this unthinkable act with your daughter,

Socialism and/or Barbarism

Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 19, 2012

The entirety of your case, which asserts that ‘I now owe a sum of money because I spent what I had borrowed on the terms of an agreement I signed according to which I would repay it’, rests on the mistaken assumption that the five instances of “I” in this sentence correspond to the same

The Beheld

The Conundrum of Body Hair

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoApril 19, 2012

Body hair contains the threat of embedded masculinity and embedded female maturity—that is, female sexuality—but damn if I see that and don't shave every day anyway.

Uncategorized

Obituary: Dick Clark

By TNIApril 18, 2012

Wow. Thanks 4 posting this. RT I remember @ScottBaio on AB

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Roosevelt, New Jersey, Utopia in Freefall: A Youtube Essay

By Jonathan LethemApril 18, 2012

A Youtube Essay by Jonathan Lethem exploring the rise and fall of a utopian community in Roosevelt, New Jersey.

The Austerity Kitchen

Tamer Instincts

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 17, 2012

For circus performers of yesteryear, having a head for business meant having one that could fit in a big cat's mouth.

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.