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The New Inquiry

Writing Like a Partisan

By Eleanor CarelessJuly 20, 2023
A review of Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes
Streaming Services

Streaming Services

By Jaime BrooksMarch 6, 2022
Streaming Services is a new blog on the music Industry
Essays & Reviews

“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe

By Charlie MarkbreiterMarch 1, 2022
When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.
Lines of Revolt

A Very Long Winter

By LiaisonsFebruary 28, 2022
War transforms everything – we are suddenly for or against armies, revolutionaries become soldiers, coalitions monopolize politics, patriotic fervor swells, and the party of order…
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Assets

Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Death Panel

“The Beyblade Strategy” or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Focused Protection

By Artie Vierkant, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Death PanelFebruary 22, 2022
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.
Essays & Reviews

21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes

By ML KejeraFebruary 10, 2022
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
Essays & Reviews

Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State

By c. e.September 13, 2021
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital
Features

Whirlpool of the Masses

By Mahdi ChowdhurySeptember 13, 2021
The biopolitical response to COVID extends the reactionary orientalism that characterized the 1865 cholera outbreak in Mecca
Reading Lists

Plague Existentialism

By The New InquirySeptember 13, 2021
A Tentative COVID-19 Self-Quarantine Reading List
Features

From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy

By Jules Gill-PetersonSeptember 13, 2021
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
Essays & Reviews

Pfizer Walk With Me

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie VierkantSeptember 13, 2021
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
Features

Lessons From a New History of ACT UP: An Interview with Sarah Schulman

By Sascha CohenSeptember 13, 2021
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power began as a revolutionary liberation movement––so what happened?
Features

Catastrophe Capitalism: An Interview with Peer Illner

By Brian Whitener and Peer IllnerSeptember 13, 2021
The response to state austerity must go beyond absorbing its outsourced labor
Features

Vol. 75 Editors’ Note: Pandemic

By TNISeptember 13, 2021
This is the editor’s note for TNI Vol. 75: PANDEMIC
Essays & Reviews

Eine kleine Paranoia

By Mary Elizabeth BorkowskiSeptember 13, 2021
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Essays & Reviews

The Year of Magical Thinking

By Gasira TimirSeptember 13, 2021
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC

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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.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Uncategorized

Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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