Sunday Reading
...right of kings.” The Passing of the Indians Behind Glass Postpolitical Infrastructures “The starfish are still dying.” The Plague Pits of London Virginity Tests, Vile Bodies: Stories from Sisi’s Egypt...
Off-Brand
...nor steal but are magically “gifted.” Anyone can get free music or free food (provided their standards are low enough), and art objects are worth nothing unless they’re purchased. Only...
The Other Foot
...pictures of incredibly mundane outfits bought at TJ Maxx. Others were immensely stylish but had microbudgets, relying on their copious amounts of free time to pick through discount bins and...
Japanese American Historical Plaza
...have placed themselves in the ranks of America's extraordinary heroes by faithfully answering the call to defend freedom. In World War II, the brave Nisei of the 442nd Regimental Combat...
Vol. 18: Family Planning
...content on thenewinquiry.com will be available, online for free to all. The New Inquiry has no traffic-seeking advertisers, no string-pulling benefactors, and no paywall. Instead, we have a simple idea:...
Go, Tootsie, Go
...cries! we cry!), observability (it's a video, with someone familiar to us, and he cries!), usefulness (reinforces an aspect of our practical lived experience), storytelling (Hoffman, a master performer, is...
Beyond Belief
...we perceive comes to us, prepackaged, in neat conceptual containers. Consider, for example, the classic gestalt image of the old/young woman: In one sense, Hanson argues, everyone sees the same...
Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter
By generating automated targeted ads, “The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible.
You Weren’t Educated, You Were Trained
...brilliant and motivated, stands in for his less academically inclined brother in the all-important Academic Aptitude Exam, inadvertently achieving the highest score in Chile. Though Twainlike in its humor and...
Foucault's Addendum
...period. The materials assembled as Lectures on the Will to Know, however, introduce us to something raw and unpolished, a man who attacked the foundations of Western knowledge by questioning...
Bad Subjects
...environment dreams are culturally relative. I grew up in a family that saw the dream world as an oracle. Dead relatives often returned to commune with the surviving, and send...
Cause/Affect
...meaning I’m trying to rationally understand the world. Far from it! One of the motivating factors in my early work was the I Ching, which is an ancient Chinese oracle...
No Dignity, No Doubt
...three). Still, dignity's obscurity doesn't make a vague perception of its existence any less valid or important. If you can’t quite prove when and where dignity exists, dictators always can....
Picture Pluperfect
...in ourselves, awash in a never-ending torrent of our own taste. Thus, the danger of Pinterest, as Bon Stewart has argued, is that it might foster an uncreative, Stepford Wife...
Sunday Reading
...the Truth: "On Sunday, while Occupy Oakland prepared for a mass day of action protesting the prison/industrial complex, Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley published a torrent of disinformation in the...
Sunday Reading
...on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea Legacies of British Slave-Ownership "Americans have never properly confronted the country’s colonial infrastructure or its imperial legacies" Idele Muc, the Al Capone of Tarnów...