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.

Wiathi

Enkare, Patriarchal Power, Friends with Roses

By Keguro MachariaJune 11, 2018

On 10 June 2018, the 13-member team of Enkare Review, a literary journal, published a statement detailing a pattern of patriarchal abuse of power by…

Wiathi

Pose

By Keguro MachariaJune 9, 2018

Now we think as we fuck this nut might kill us. —Essex Hemphill, "Now We Think" For a range of reasons—taste, aptitude, exposure, politics—my academic…

Features

What Lands On Us

By William C. Anderson and Zoe SamudziJune 5, 2018

An excerpt from Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson's new book, As Black as Resistance, examines diasporic relationships to land.

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Essays & Reviews, Features

A World More Beautiful and Alive: A Review of The Extractive Zone

By Megan SpencerJune 4, 2018

From Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Colombia, and Bolivia, Macarena Gómez-Barris describes “submerged perspectives,” the decolonial ways of knowing that unsettle colonial relationships to land and the forms of violence they reproduce.

Features

Ghosts

By Ashon CrawleyMay 29, 2018

To tell the stories of a blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia provoked by the Disney Channel is to draw energy from a ghosting of severed connections, an otherwise movement of unnamed but present intimacies

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black (beyond negation)

By Keguro MachariaMay 26, 2018

I am uninterested in investigating, documenting, theorizing, and inhabiting my own negation—black negation.

South/South

Grapefruit Your Man

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 22, 2018

See to it that no parts of him go wasted

Lady Science

Rhythms of Change: The Victorian Science Poems of May Kendall

By Lady ScienceMay 17, 2018

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Lady Science

Women Radiobiologists and 'Standard Man'

By Lady ScienceMay 17, 2018

By Brad Bolman In the waning years of 1940, Mary Jane Cook began work in the Health Physics department of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, named…

Lady Science

Welcome to Life as a Stepford Wife: The Politics of Self-Care in the 19th Century

By Lady ScienceMay 17, 2018

By Robert Davis Beauty and self-care has always been in conversation with contemporary politics, especially regarding race, gender, class, and privilege. While the concept of…

Features

A Cryptoeconomy of Affect

By Uriah Marc TodoroffMay 14, 2018

Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?

Features

We Call It a Dismantling Process

By Jared WareMay 9, 2018

Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike

Essays & Reviews

The Diasporist of Drohobycz

By Nathan GoldmanMay 7, 2018

A new translation of Bruno Schulz’s stories reveals the local in vitalist understandings of diaspora that do not need to claim a Jewish state to flourish

Essays & Reviews

Some Blues but Not the Kind That’s Blue

By Lavelle PorterApril 30, 2018

In music and literature, Jay-Z and Percival Everett meditate on maturity, black masculinity, and the confessional drive of the artist’s life

Features

Solidarity with Grad Workers

By Robin D. G. KelleyApril 27, 2018

Who is afraid of the big bad graduate student union?

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.