The New Inquiry

“Set the terms of your struggle:” The Cal Poly Humboldt Commune Speaks

By New York War CrimesMay 16, 2024

Cal Poly Humboldt rapidly developed into the militant front of the campus Palestinian liberation movement. After repelling a police assault during their occupation of Siemens Hall—renamed Intifada Hall—the commune claimed much of the campus. We spoke to two participants about their efforts.

Uncategorized

No Kings of New York

By Malcolm HarrisFebruary 28, 2012

TNI editor sat down for a conversation with the Minneapolis-based hip-hop collective Doomtree.

The Beheld

Body Image Tips From Plato

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 28, 2012

With the Theory of Forms, every particular instance of an apple is understood as an approximate expression of its Ideal Form, inherently flawed. And when we're talking about body image and how we see ourselves, that’s where the problems start.

Zunguzungu

Santorum's Gifts

By Aaron BadyFebruary 27, 2012

Alas! I made the mistake of reading Rick Santorum, and this knowledge led me into sin.

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Essays & Reviews

The Slow Politics of Occupied Filmmaking

By Adam RothsteinFebruary 27, 2012

The Liveswarm has made for some of the most effective movement propaganda in decades, but what are its aesthetics?

The Austerity Kitchen

All I needed was a sandwich to make me believe in miracles ...

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 27, 2012

“You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country?..."

The Beheld

Beside the Point: Appearance Anxiety in Eating Disorders

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 27, 2012

If we keep the focus of eating disorder conversations on women's bodies, we're doing exactly what women with eating disorders do to themselves.

Zunguzungu

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyFebruary 26, 2012

So much to say, and only a week and the internet to say it in.

Essays & Reviews

Army of Un

By M. Francis WolffFebruary 24, 2012

Adam Johnson's latest novel, The Orphan Master's Son, is one of those rare works of high ambition that follows through on all of its promises. Set in the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea, it examines both the Orwellian horrors of life in the DPRK and the voyeurism of Western media.

The Austerity Kitchen

Reindeer Game

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 24, 2012

In the harsh arctic region Laplanders inhabit, joy, like summer, is fleeting.

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere: 2.24.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 24, 2012

Beauty news of the week: the sale of the Mary Kay mansion, Downton Abbey perfume, Shaq giving a pedicure, and more.

South/South

Semeiotic Dubai: Peirce and Pop Architecture

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviFebruary 23, 2012

'Gold adorned buildings, souks laden with gold jewellery that looks too heavy to wear, gold ATM machines and shopping malls so big you can feel the curvature of the earth...'

Shines Like Gold

It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago

By imp kerrFebruary 23, 2012

In the late 90s, the fortune dispatched gritty Chiquita in the MPD to institute and insufflate and propagate █████.

Essays & Reviews

Fuck Forever and Never Die

By Michael ThomsenFebruary 23, 2012

The closest you can get to sex in Skyrim is marriage.

Uncategorized

The Fame Game

By The New InquiryFebruary 22, 2012

Frank Warren of PostSecret and Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen discuss the instability of sudden Internet celebrity.

The Austerity Kitchen

Night Moves

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 22, 2012

There was a time when late-night wakefulness wasn't something to be dreaded but welcomed. Centuries ago, sleepers woke with pleasure, even eagerness. Between "first" and "second" sleep, so called, men, women and children stirred to enjoy activities domestic and romantic, spiritual and intellectual.

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.