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.

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The Revolution that Wasn't

By Matt PearceDecember 21, 2011

I am not a hero. I was only using the keyboard, Mona, on the internet, I never put my life in danger, the real heroes are the ones on the ground. … This revolution belonged to the internet youth, then the revolution belonged to the Egyptian youth, then the revolution belonged to all of Egypt.

Essays & Reviews

I'm With Stupid

By Michael ThomsenDecember 19, 2011

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, New Directions Publishing Stupidity is always conditional. An observer discovers some ignorance in a subject, or else the subject…

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Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011

By Amanda RivkinDecember 18, 2011

Where are the great men? Are we beyond the point of elevating the individual over the group, or are there simply no more individuals? Marc…

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Essays & Reviews

The Color and the Sound

By Mary Elizabeth BorkowskiDecember 16, 2011

Erik den Breejen’s pop synesthesia and the Beach Boys’ SMiLE

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Manet in Tunisia

By James PolchinDecember 14, 2011

Revolutionary art changes how one can see. So does revolution.

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On Rage and Swagger

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 12, 2011

An excerpt from Roman Letters

Essays & Reviews

The Enduring Legacy of Basquiat’s Hair

By Itoro UdokoDecember 9, 2011

The painter’s generative conflict (and coif) lives on

Marginal Utility

Rioting Nonconsumers Duplicate

By Rob HorningDecember 6, 2011

Duplicate. Is rioting an expression of envy, or something more political, or something that is ultimately inexplicable? From Zygmunt Bauman's response to the London riots: We are…

Essays & Reviews

Art, Work, and Refusal

By TNINovember 29, 2011

Sara Wookey performing “Trio A” (1966) by Yvonne Rainer at VIVA! Performance Festival, Montreal Photo by Guy L’Hereux I participated in an audition on November…

Essays & Reviews

Death Dreams

By Rob HorningNovember 28, 2011

Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism by Ben Jeffery, Zero Books (2011) It can be hard to keep French writer-provocateur Michel Houellebecq’s novels straight in one’s head. Like…

News

#OWS Phase II Monday, November 28, 7:30pm

By Atossa Araxia AbrahamianNovember 24, 2011

#OWS Phase II Monday, November 28, 7:30pm Northwest Corner Building, Columbia University 550 W. 120th st., Corner of 120th and Broadway Sponsored by: Jacobin, Dissent Magazine and the Center for…

Essays & Reviews

Grudge Lust

By Elizabeth GreenwoodNovember 23, 2011

I can’t remember the specifics of school years, but I can always remember my enemies. Colleen Shea, blonde, “pretty,” and popular, bore the title in…

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Don't Stop Beliebing

By TNINovember 21, 2011

If it were opportunistic, it would have a better beat. It’s so earnest and guileless that it’s completely unappealing. It really shows how pointless endorsing Occupy Wall Street is as a gesture. You also can’t dance to it.

Essays & Reviews

The Failure Addict

By Rob HorningNovember 18, 2011

John Phillips mastered the art of serial disappointment by sharing it compulsively. This makes him a harbinger of the social media age

News

Today: International Day of Action

By TNINovember 17, 2011

Today: International Day of Action

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.