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

First-Person Corporate

By Erwin MontgomeryMarch 12, 2012

Neoliberal themes in contemporary novels do more than enforce political correctness and mitigate class conflict; they dupe you into writing yourself out of your own life story.

The Austerity Kitchen

There is nothing like cherries for producing free saliva ...

By Christine BaumgarthuberMarch 12, 2012

"A pause...."

Shines Like Gold

The true dimensions of the problem

By imp kerrMarch 12, 2012

Love possessed the reputation of being “a center of interest.” Probably such a belief existed in connection with science and some circumstances that the smile of love supposed to be contained in its flame was burning courteously.

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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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The Beheld

A Humble Plea

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoMarch 12, 2012

I'm looking for a few good women. (Aren't we all, dahlinghk?)

Marginal Utility

The master-smartphone dialectic

By Rob HorningMarch 11, 2012

The strange idea that the smartphones themselves, and not bosses, are responsible for workers' compulsive smartphone use

Zunguzungu

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyMarch 11, 2012

Every week, the internet says a bunch of things. Here are SEVERAL of them.

Zunguzungu

On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”

By Aaron BadyMarch 10, 2012

A propos of absolutely nothing, a few texts I’ve found helpful in unpacking the aforementioned genre, in no particular order...

Essays & Reviews

Great Dads

By Giovanni TisoMarch 9, 2012

Meet the Great Dad. He's come to make you forget feminism ever existed.

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere 3.9.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoMarch 9, 2012

Miss Iran 1978, criminalizing street harassment, Care Bears in Spanx, and the best British commute for mascara application. (Sheffield, duh.)

Shines Like Gold

The spurious infinite

By imp kerrMarch 8, 2012

the function of the discourse is not in fact to create “fear, shame, envy, an impression” etc.

Essays & Reviews

Trouble at the Language Lab

By Zack FriedmanMarch 8, 2012

Ben Marcus’s novel The Flame Alphabet is a disaster novel about what happens to the avant-garde in the age of the MFA.

The Beheld

The Grandiose Vacuity of "Rock the Lips"

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoMarch 8, 2012

The emptiness of the red lipstick campaign to mark International Women's Day is so monumental that it teeters on genius. Put a pout on it!

Shines Like Gold

Walk into a drugstore, and the last thing you see is drugs

By imp kerrMarch 7, 2012

The Austerity Kitchen

Kitchen Wisdom

By Christine BaumgarthuberMarch 7, 2012

In precapitalist times wealth was considered neither a rational consequence of thrift and smart investment nor evidence of some inborn excellence. Rather, it was regarded as status enjoyed at the sufferance of providence and was therefore subject to revocation. A sudden turn of Fortune's wheel and Dives became Lazarus; Lazarus, Dives. Giving charity appeared, then,

Essays & Reviews

The Fight and the Whale

By Andrew LimbongMarch 7, 2012

In an oddly therapeutic podcast, comedians Tom Scharpling and Marc Maron confront their fears of aging disgracefully, losing their boundaries, and becoming irrelevant

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.