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.

Essays & Reviews

The Ego's Death Trip

By Natasha YoungMay 9, 2016

Recent neuroscientific findings have lent new credence to this fundamental Freudian psychoanalytic concept as well as to the therapeutic value of psychedelics in dealing with it

Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersMay 8, 2016

"pundits" and "Donald Trump"

Zunguzungu

Quiet on the Border

By Aaron BadyMay 7, 2016

Because borders are so weird, words proliferate.

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Assets

Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Essays & Reviews

Namaste Inc.

By Ansh PatelMay 2, 2016

Greatly influential on Western impressions of India, the ancient greeting namaste has since been exploited by that country’s tourism industry for the purpose of attracting Western visitors, who have been sold on the idea that their impressions will be made real by compliant natives

Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersMay 1, 2016

You are blocked from following Sunday Reading and viewing Sunday Reading's tweets

Marginal Utility

The overload

By Rob HorningApril 29, 2016

Information overload is how social media becomes TV

Marginal Utility

Contortions of self-consciousness

By Rob HorningApril 28, 2016

Getting around to the impossible demand to act natural

Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersApril 24, 2016

forever young

Essays & Reviews

Future Games

By Alfie BownApril 19, 2016

What makes conservative retro farming simulators so popular?

The Austerity Kitchen

A Contrary Image of Steaming Excrement

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 18, 2016

Let it move you

Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersApril 17, 2016

Once a year Sunday happens twice on Sunday a year

Essays & Reviews

The Viral Virus

By Lauren DucaApril 15, 2016

Content mills turn out listicles and articles inviting us to assess our mental condition — and share it. When the mechanisms of social media tempt us to self-diagnose for attention, how can we tell when we are really afflicted?

The Beheld

Guest Post: The Politics of Tibetan "Plateau Redness"

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoApril 14, 2016

The debate surrounding "plateau redness" of Tibetan faces is part of the long history of situating women's bodies at the center of the struggle against colonialization.

Features, Special Projects

Donald Trump: "Donald Trump"

By Sam LavigneApril 13, 2016

A supercut of Donald Trump saying his own name.

Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersApril 12, 2016

Sixty percent of the time, Sunday Reading happens every time

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.