The New Inquiry

Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation

By Katherine McKittrickMay 10, 2022

Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine Mckittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.

Shines Like Gold

Crypto Vegas

By imp kerrJune 7, 2021

"You'll never use the dollar again."

Lines of Revolt

Victory and Its Consequences (Part II)

By LiaisonsMay 17, 2021

This is the second part of a text published in two parts, and which is featured in Liaisons’ forthcoming book, “Horizons.” In this second part,…

Features

Palestine is Free (If You Want It)

By TNI Editors and FriendsMay 15, 2021

The right to a free and united Palestine from the river to the sea, the right of return, and the right to live in dignity under a just and lasting peace.

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South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Personification

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 15, 2021

A national gas-lighting project. That we didn’t see what we saw with our own eyes.

South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Reprieve

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 15, 2021

My greatest resentment is how little they prepare you for becoming a woman

South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Dissimulation

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 11, 2021

This is how you demobilize a cause: by framing ethical boundaries as negotiations

Shines Like Gold

Emails show Steve Jobs referred to Facebook as ‘Fecebook’

By imp kerrMay 7, 2021

"Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard. Just ask."

Lines of Revolt

Victory and Its Consequences (Part I)

By LiaisonsMay 7, 2021

This is the first part of a text we will publish in two parts, and which is featured in Liaisons’ forthcoming book, “Horizons.” In the…

South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Analysis

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 5, 2021

"You promised me not to break your promise anymore, it is I, dear, who have caused this break." —"All of Asia is indefinitely on hold."

Shines Like Gold

Ambiguous Objects

By imp kerrApril 17, 2021

Venomous people could become a reality, scientists say

Kazakh postage stamp in tribute to koumiss, a fermented dairy drink

The Austerity Kitchen

Fermented Foods: A History

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 8, 2021

Suspicion of fermented foods owes to a peculiar blend of scientific and market forces so influential as to sway consumer preference in the direction of bland, unappetizing mass-produced substitutes for the zestier originals we can – and did – make ourselves.

Shines Like Gold

Platforms have driven the price of content to zero

By imp kerrMarch 30, 2021

Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13

Shines Like Gold

zero-knowledge proofs

By imp kerrMarch 11, 2021

Most life on Earth will be killed by lack of oxygen in a billion years

Shines Like Gold

‘Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell’ –John Milton

By imp kerrFebruary 10, 2021

Speakers take a lot for granted. That is, they presuppose information. As we wrote this, we presupposed that readers would understand English.

Shines Like Gold

Can dropping a little data change conclusions?

By imp kerrJanuary 6, 2021

How much is an hour of your free time worth? $19.

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 Liz KinnamonJune 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.