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.

Marginal Utility

Precarity and "affective resistance"

By Rob HorningFebruary 14, 2012

Does precarity lead to resistance and political action, or simply more desperate and exploitable survival strategies?

Essays & Reviews

Superman/Everyman

By Roger BellinFebruary 14, 2012

A review of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas

Essays & Reviews

Reading Like a Loser

By David WintersFebruary 14, 2012

Sometimes it’s said that we’re all Nietzscheans now. From cultural studies to continental philosophy, Nietzsche's ideas aren’t so much studied as presupposed; they’re part of the deep grammar of those disciplines, part of the furniture. These days, disquieting Nietzschean insights like, say, perspectivism (the idea that there are no facts, only interpretations) have come to

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The Beheld

Breaking Down Beauty: Physiognomy Revisited

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 14, 2012

Just If you really want the magic decoder ring to the image, scroll to page 61. when you thought you’d read enough from me about…

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Nietzsche Is Our Valentine

By TNIFebruary 13, 2012

image by imp kerr This February 14, The New Inquiry is sending our love to a certain mustachioed Teutonic superman. Whether he's writing his own…

The Austerity Kitchen

Some Assembly Required: Parlor Games and Their Uses

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 13, 2012

If all that's solid melted into air under conditions of capitalism, parlor games and similar practices acted as so many bladders to capture this sublimated social stuff that was formerly so reliably substantial.

Essays & Reviews

Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs

By Jesse DarlingFebruary 13, 2012

Like the flâneur, we weren’t working, or doing anything decent or useful; we even recognized our uselessness as a kind of radical generationality, and wore it like a bad handle. The Arcade was the original iron-and-glass shopping mall, and the flâneur — affluent, indolent, and out for a good wasted time - was the original

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Obituary: Whitney Houston

By TNIFebruary 12, 2012

A remembrance in 11 Tweets.

Zunguzungu

Sunday Reading!

By Aaron BadyFebruary 12, 2012

They say this internet has a million stories. Here are just a few of them. And also a hilarious picture of Frank Zappa with his folks.

Shines Like Gold

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By imp kerrFebruary 11, 2012

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Shines Like Gold

There's a small segment of the ████ that is not available to the general public.

By imp kerrFebruary 11, 2012

When I first began at S-68, I would randomly be taken into a small room, which contained a table, a chair, and one hundred or…

Marginal Utility

Mansfield Park is melting in the dark

By Rob HorningFebruary 10, 2012

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and the perils of attention seeking

Essays & Reviews

The Selfless Man

By Jesse Elias SpaffordFebruary 10, 2012

Ryan Gosling’s lack of substance makes him the go-to heartthrob for ideological indoctrination

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere 2.10.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 10, 2012

What's going on in beauty this week, from head to toe and everything in between. From Head... The extravaganza: Seems that we've always liked to…

Zunguzungu

You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree

By Aaron BadyFebruary 10, 2012

In 1893, Mary Kingsley found herself with six months to kill, so she went to Africa. But the thing about being a Victorian lady is that you can go to the Gold Coast, but you can't get away from the mansplaining...

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.