AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Youth Mixtape
In conjunction with TNI Magazine #2, Youth, The New Inquiry A/V presents the Youth Mixtape, available for listening on Spotify.
"To 'blow one's mind' means to become more aware."
Charles Reich's 1970 defense of youth culture illustrates the problems with the politics of self-liberation.
Where the Fire's Still Burning
Witness testimony and videotape evidence in Sivas showed that police ‘merely gazed at the scene with empty looks‘ as the building was set on fire.
First-Person Corporate
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 true dimensions of the problem
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.
A Humble Plea
I'm looking for a few good women. (Aren't we all, dahlinghk?)
The master-smartphone dialectic
The strange idea that the smartphones themselves, and not bosses, are responsible for workers' compulsive smartphone use
Sunday Reading
Every week, the internet says a bunch of things. Here are SEVERAL of them.
On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”
A propos of absolutely nothing, a few texts I’ve found helpful in unpacking the aforementioned genre, in no particular order...
Great Dads
Meet the Great Dad. He's come to make you forget feminism ever existed.
Beauty Blogosphere 3.9.12
Miss Iran 1978, criminalizing street harassment, Care Bears in Spanx, and the best British commute for mascara application. (Sheffield, duh.)
The spurious infinite
the function of the discourse is not in fact to create “fear, shame, envy, an impression” etc.
Trouble at the Language Lab
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 Grandiose Vacuity of "Rock the Lips"
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!
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