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.

Features

The Fash Bash Bash Reel

By TNIFebruary 7, 2017

Sponsored by the Limited-Edition Antifa Tote

Essays & Reviews

Blue History

By Jessica LehmanFebruary 6, 2017

The ocean archive catalogues the ways we have been laid to waste and have wasted.

Zunguzungu

My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!

By Aaron BadyFebruary 5, 2017

Retconning America.

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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Essays & Reviews

Seeping Through The Pages

By Mark TreckaFebruary 2, 2017

America's rigid racial categories erase more fluid forms of Indigenous self-identification.

Essays & Reviews

Coming of Age in Modern Dystopia

By Ruby BruntonJanuary 31, 2017

The bildungsroman as living historical document.

South/South

Afraid is a Country

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJanuary 30, 2017

Essays & Reviews

The Enemy of All Mankind

By Audri AugenbraumJanuary 30, 2017

If Global Fishing Watch is unlikely to be used by ordinary citizens of the countries most affected by illegal fishing, why is it marketed like a neighborhood watch tool?

Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersJanuary 29, 2017

a total and complete shutdown of airports until our country's Muslims can figure out what is going on

Essays & Reviews

Environmental Racism in St. Louis

By Clark Randall and Jacqui GermainJanuary 27, 2017

A brief history of the lead poisoning epidemic in St. Louis and a question about its future.

Essays & Reviews

Info Wars

By Waqas MirzaJanuary 26, 2017

A new book plumbs the history and ideology behind the State Department's propaganda efforts in Middle Eastern media, and the resistance it provokes.

Essays & Reviews

Amniotechnics

By Sophie LewisJanuary 25, 2017

A politics of holding water is central to struggles around kinmaking, including reproductive justice, migrant solidarity, and indigenous sovereignty

Essays & Reviews

Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams

By Simone Browne and Zach BlasJanuary 24, 2017

In an exclusive conversation, surveillance scholar Simone Browne and artist Zach Blas critique various forms of “control diagrams” and imagine a new commons in the space between the Internet’s network nodes.<

Features

Data Streams

By Hito Steyerl and Kate CrawfordJanuary 23, 2017

We are being seen with ever greater resolution, even while the systems around us increasingly disappear into the background.

Lady Science

Feminist Anthropology Part II

By Lady ScienceJanuary 19, 2017

Feminist anthropology began in the 1970s not merely to promote a wider paradigm shift in ethnographic research, but to galvanize the discipline into remodeling how anthropologists functioned in the academy and the field.

Lady Science

Healing History

By Lady ScienceJanuary 19, 2017

Discrimination toward women in the medical arts can be traced back to the story of Agnodice.

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.