AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Selfless Man
Ryan Gosling’s lack of substance makes him the go-to heartthrob for ideological indoctrination
Beauty Blogosphere 2.10.12
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…
You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
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...
The luncheon was not altogether a success....
"She ate noisily, greedily, a little like a wild beast in a menagerie...."
Concerning the Violent Peace-Police: An Open Letter to Chris Hedges
I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York. I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs. This is why
Fail Worse
Beckett's "Fail better" is now experimental literature's equivalent of the famous Che Guevara photo: a successful brand with no particular owner
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part II)
I’ve had my chance to expound on glamour (which, of course, I did from my chaise longue with a Manhattan in hand while my protégé took dictation),…
Who Can You Trust?
In a post-digital world, the Named garment achieves something our social networks cannot. We may never meet the three-dimensional version of our complete online cohort. But Minnie has a name. Order her. She’ll arrive at your door. Touch her. Smell her. She’s real. She’s yours.
Un(der)known Writers: Penelope Mortimer
There is much to know about Penelope Mortimer. She was married to one man, but gave birth to two children from extramarital affairs with two other, separate men. While pregnant, she would leave her first husband for her second, John Mortimer. Their relationship was anything but sunny, and the details became excellent source material for
PostSecret "Live" Spring 2012
The New Inquiry Magazine, No. 1 contributor, Frank Warren of PostSecret has posted the dates for his live tour. Stop by and say hello if…
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Notes on animals and auteurism: The cat and dog cinema of Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part I)
Glamour is an illusion, and an allusion too. Glamour is a performance, a creation, a recipe, but one with give. Glamour is elegance minus restraint,…
Plié ... Relevé ... Heel!
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely critters--at least as far as Mrs. Midnight's Animal Comedians were concerned.
Selflessness and self-absorption
The space in which we can experience ourselves just being ourselves is disappearing. Here's what an old book about 18th century French painting can tell us about this
Our Contributors' Books
Combined and Uneven Apocalypse - Evan Calder Williams The Reactionary Mind - Corey Robin Girl Parts - John Cusick Roman Letters - Evan Calder…
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