Insiders
...to meet the needs of our subscribers who interact with TNI in a number of ways—less through our PDF and more through not simply online essays but also printed objects,...
Vol. 69 Editors' Note: Insiders
The first issue in our newsletter model
Hive Minds
...become half-crazed when searching for honey, hacking apart stumps, toppling any tree that betrayed signs of bees. A party of bee hunters could devastate an entire copse. In 1839 a...
You Can Encrypt Your Face
...one of the faces below around yours. And make sure to wave at the scanner—their owners may be watching. Download all the masks here, or view them individually below....
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...tangible. It is an immaterial series, after all. My dream is for Love Dog to exist in print and as an app, so that people can download the book and...
Coldplay: Live at the Self-Checkout
Coldplay’s exciting new collaboration with grocery-store self-checkout aisles pushes the boundaries of automation, commerce, and art.
Some observations on Taiye Selasi's "Driver"
...Ufortunately, the story is not open-access, though Audible.com.au appears to have a free download of the podcast version of it. It may surprise you to learn that Taiye...
Sunday Reading
...Making of a New Capital City, 1950-90 Muhammad Ali in Qatar, 1971 Kitabet: Your one-stop-shopping source for news coverage of innovative infrastructure thievery in Turkey. Happy Mother’s Day to All...
Judging Books by Their Covers
...a tangible sport, not something you download and scroll through on an electronic device. More ambitious attempts at the book as art object can be seen in New Directions’ recent...
Advance Fragments: Circling the Square
...the latest model (its presence being as straightforward as it was inexplicable from the point of view of either art or “Christian values” - no performance artist was crucified on...
Digital Runways, Paper Dolls
...identify themselves, either by multiplying into an image trail or evaporating in a cloud of glitter. Burberry’s hologram show is telling of the contemporary moment in fashion when Asia, and...
Un(der)known Writers: Aimé Césaire
...People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: 'How strange! But never mind-it's Nazism, it will pass!' And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth...
Arguing the Web
...the time. As always, if you have any trouble, hit us up at tni | at | thenewinquiry.com. Thanks for your support, and we'll see you on the internet....
Smash Images from Antiquity
...regions. To get rid of a god you had to get rid of its infrastructure. Monotheism, ideally not reducible to its infrastructure, doesn’t have this problem. “The figure of the...
Nostalgia for the Future
...all the steps they took to make it so. Knowing this does not mean much; it does not stop me from searching again for those things, here, in this patronizing...
Nairobi in the Age of the World Target
...Twitter. You watch the rising body count, the undulating cloud of black smoke and you hear the final implosion of the mall with growing unease. You feel almost apologetic when...