Usurer Illusion
...compacted. "The power of debt is described as if it were exercised neither through repression nor through ideology," Lazzarato writes. "The debtor is 'free,' but his actions, his behavior, are...
"It Continues Not To End": Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project
...whether contemporary or historical, with a faith that borders on fundamentalism. In report realism, the truth will set us free.” The first poem in the ICC Witness project deconstructs this...
First-Person Deficient
...members / Rebell'd against the belly," he explains, because, "like a gulf did it remain / I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive." The belly was free to...
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...Thousands of subscriptions, 30 magazines, and three supplements later, the New Inquiry is committed to remaining ad and paywall free. It’s a decision that maintains our editorial independence as...
The Malignant Melancholy
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.
In Defense of Looting
...be enslaved and who could not. The earliest working definition of blackness may well have been “those who could be property”. Someone who organized a mob to violently free slaves,...
Sunday Reading
...designer dog." "Has he spent 50 years wishing he’d been killed instead of Kennedy? 'Of course,' he said. 'Of course.'" "Man in Saudi Arabia arrested for giving 'free hugs.' "What...
No End in Night
...times are like no time. The Clock, too, achieves a kind of temporal edge-of-seat free fall and one of art’s higher goals: transcendence of limits. In this case there’s one...
Spell-Check Nation
Why do people continue to align themselves with the fantasy of a decorous state?
Vol. 20 Editors' Note: Off-Brand
...$2 and get Off-Brand (as well as free access to our archive of back issues) today. *** We are told we must be clothed, and then that our clothes are...
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...sure, take a look at the preview poster here, with excerpts from all the articles. If you're content to wait, we'll start with three pieces today and publish the rest...
The Postmodernity of Big Data
...gain. Playing God has become all the more brisk and profitable thanks to cloud computing. But beyond economic motivations for Big Data’s rise, are there also epistemological ones? Has Big...
¡Viva la revolución! A pledge from Susan Surandon
...are too precious to risk battle. I'm not ready to die. Instead, I have designated myself Oracle of our burgeoning army. I will be the keeper of the resistance's future;...
Party TV
...searching documentary River Elegy, produced right before the Tiananmen massacre of 1989, have crystallized the national mood and become central documents of the contemporary Chinese experience. And Zhu identifies undercurrents...
Laundering Bodies
Triage and the consultant-ethicist in for-profit healthcare
Varsity Voracity
...Papist. Said young Burke, "They had taken him for a frier." --James Boswell, Boswelliana (1876) Students attending Pennsylvania's Haverford College had it better. Strawberry shortcake succored them during exam week,...