AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Friendly Squirrels
A chain email forward from my father.
Picture Pluperfect
The Facebook profile is not a window on the self. It’s a canvas
Race, Recognition, and Exotica
For white people with a hidden "exotic" lineage, ethnicity is largely an internal experience—making the externalized label of "exotic" uncommonly alluring.
Arguing the Web Mixtape
In conjunction with TNI Magazine #3, Arguing The Web, The New Inquiry A/V presents the Arguing the Web Mixtape, available for listening on Spotify
The Passion of Private Manning
Original image source: World War II poster, US National Archives What to call Private Manning? The question is surprisingly fraught. After all, Manning was about…
Thoughts on a Word: Exotic
With the burgeoning power of women in the 1960s, someone had to find a way to neither deny the existence of women of color nor be permissive in their bid for power: enter the word "exotic."
Staying on Their Toes
For nineteenth-century ballerinas, the precariousness of dancing en pointe was nothing compared to the precariousness of their financial situation.
Precarious Verse
The precarious state of poetry these days mirrors the conditions of all who labor in the "social factory"
Phantom Tollbooths
Expansive and nonsensical intellectual property regimes threaten to fence off digital abundance
TNI Presents "The Great Dictator"
Join The New Inquiry at The Rubin Museum this Friday, April 13 at 9:30pm for a screening of Charlie Chaplin's classic and controversial film, The Great Dictator…
Theorizing The Web
"The second annual Theorizing the Web conference aims to expand the range and depth of theory used to help us make sense of how the…
Sunday Reading
This week, we begin and end with briefs.
Mystical Idiots
In Lars Iyer’s comic non-literature, inept philosophers attempt non-thinking
The world has been created a few minutes ago
bear and endure.
We are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type...
"We could prefer not to have known at all our neighbor..."
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