Writing Like a Partisan
A review of Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes
Streaming Services
Streaming Services is a new blog on the music Industry
“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe
When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.
A Very Long Winter
War transforms everything – we are suddenly for or against armies, revolutionaries become soldiers, coalitions monopolize politics, patriotic fervor swells, and the party of order…
“The Beyblade Strategy” or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Focused Protection
The sociological production of the “end of the pandemic” means a wholesale rejection of social rights for the medically vulnerable, but it also means the creation of countless new medically vulnerable people.
21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital
Whirlpool of the Masses
The biopolitical response to COVID extends the reactionary orientalism that characterized the 1865 cholera outbreak in Mecca
Plague Existentialism
A Tentative COVID-19 Self-Quarantine Reading List
From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
Lessons From a New History of ACT UP: An Interview with Sarah Schulman
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power began as a revolutionary liberation movement––so what happened?
Catastrophe Capitalism: An Interview with Peer Illner
The response to state austerity must go beyond absorbing its outsourced labor
Vol. 75 Editors’ Note: Pandemic
This is the editor’s note for TNI Vol. 75: PANDEMIC
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
The Year of Magical Thinking
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
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.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
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.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
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.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks