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 Mask of Zelda: Dark Eternities

By porpentine charity heartscapeOctober 2, 2017

It was just an ordinary day in the world of Legend of Zelda. Then everything went topsy-turvy. Content Warning: Violence of every kind.

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Open Office Plan

By Hannah GoldOctober 2, 2017

In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.

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Coldplay: Live at the Self-Checkout

By Erikk GeannikisOctober 2, 2017

Coldplay’s exciting new collaboration with grocery-store self-checkout aisles pushes the boundaries of automation, commerce, and art.

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Unafraid

By Walidah ImarishaOctober 2, 2017

This was the 15th raid Superman had thwarted across the country

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The Silver Lining

By Nic MurrayOctober 2, 2017

In a break from constructing predictive models, Nate Silver crafted an entirely new universe to answer the question “What if Hillary won?” Following a prolonged radio silence, this latest dispatch from Earth 2 explains why we haven’t heard from him since.

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The Devengers, Part Three

By Tony TulathimutteOctober 2, 2017

This is a story about the telos of our current wave of megablockbuster superhero films and shows, beginning roughly with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2007 and The Dark Knight in 2008, which endowed the genre with broad critical respectability, public embrace, limitless bankrolls, a persistent universe, and a viable playbook for adapting second-string intellectual

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Sweet VR of California

By Amelia Winger-BearskinOctober 2, 2017

Sweet Valley is a digital utopia where bodiless souls can explore psychedelic understandings through a networked VR high-school cult

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The Novel Refuses

By Aaron BadySeptember 23, 2017

Any attempt to say what this novel is becomes a statement of what the novel feels itself becoming and declines to be.

Essays & Reviews

Make Kin, Not Borders

By Simon TorracintaSeptember 19, 2017

Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?

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Editors’ Note, Vol. 63: Patriots

By TNISeptember 15, 2017

It's an affirmation of what people of color have always known

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C-SPAN 5

By Sam LavigneSeptember 15, 2017

Purest Washington inanity, straight from the source.

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The Nuclear National Family

By Mari Matsumoto and Sabu KohsoSeptember 15, 2017

The Fukushima disaster exposed fissures in Japanese society that its familial politics tries to paper over

Essays & Reviews

Must Fall

By Brian KamanziSeptember 15, 2017

Reflections on Must Fall’s paradoxical call, student politics in South Africa, and the role of the university

Essays & Reviews

The Havoc of Less

By Gabrielle DaCostaSeptember 15, 2017

Huey Newton’s theory of intercommunalism reminds us not to lose sight of the everyday over the spectacular in contemporary discourses of crisis

Essays & Reviews, Features

Language Under House Arrest

By Alex Karsavin and Mara IskanderSeptember 15, 2017

Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity

Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

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Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019

An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli

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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

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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.

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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

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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.