Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
View From Nowhere
On the cultural ideology of Big Data
Post-coloniality Sells
An interview with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Let's Tell This Story
The point is not that colonialism didn’t happen, or was inconsequential; the point is that colonialism wasn’t the only thing of consequence that did.
Art of the Obituary: Baby Doc
Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier is dead at 63, but his death brings no justice
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading is actually just an accidental host for the virus, and not a good one.
#mybodymyhome (i)
Pursuing Freedom Dreams
This Week in Art Crime
A man who faces the death penalty for Nazi art-looting has to prove he forged the Vermeer in question by painting a new one live in jail, and much more
Terrifying Robot Update: Thursday October 2, 2014
Underwater robot cops are not a thing of the future, they are a thing of the now, they are swarming to investigate your boat RIGHT NOW better go hide that contraband better
TNI Welcomes Keguro Macharia
We are so excited to introduce a the newest blogger at the New Inquiry. Keguro Macharia is a writer and professor based in Kenya. His…
Waiting For
"You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions."
Change of Place: Kasarani-Gaza-Ferguson
How, I wonder, do the disposable survive?
Laurie Penny's "Unspeakable Things"
Penny's electrifying polemic isn't for "the good girl." Then again, the good girl might not exist.
To relax and create beautiful monstrosities
Michael Moorcock describes, in 1972, the origin of both Ello and Red Lobster's new Fresh Catch Lobster Tail-Stuffed Scampi Garlic Lobster Sliders.
We Can Be Heroes
By associating itself with the selfish pleasures of visibility, the wearable camera GoPro has staved off criticism for how it enhances surveillance
The White Women of Empire
The deployment of white women as the agents of empire, both at home and abroad, is a visible trope in advertising for Fall TV.
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
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.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
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.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
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.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks