Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Some Kind of Exile
An interview with Caine Prize winner Okwiri Oduor
breathless babbling and blathering about Okwiri Oduor
A profile of Okwiri Oduor, writer.
The Killing Class
To order spatial operations, to command bodies, to keep things moving along, to kill with impunity
Room for Improvement
Tenants had a real beef with the food served in New York boarding houses
TNI Welcomes George Lazenby
We're so pleased to announce our newest blogger George Lazenby, who will be moving from 454 W 23rd St to just 454, here at the New Inquiry.…
Psychology's One and Only Thesis
The idea that you should know yourself is more complicated than at first it might seem.
Sunday Reading
was forced to release umbrellas to maintain safety.
Rape Culture: The War At Home
Women know a lot about conflict and war. Women have a very intimate knowledge of violence.
Violence Is Mine
Post-internet art reflects a certain undercurrent of violence without being didactic about its source.
This Week in Art Crime
Art is people, street art is copyrighted, Italy is full of American tourists running amok and vandals are vandalizing Banksys. What's an art lover to do?
A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky
A few network stars can't hide the fact that the black family sitcom is in deep decline
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Robot stalker, Robot cheetah, Robot infant, Liquid Robot, Sex Robot
Carceral Educations
Re-entry programs can’t fix the problems of the systems they replicate
Sunday Reading
/kaw·re?d?/: Neoliberalism, Foucault and algorithms "A Bitter Disappointment," Edward Said on His Encounter with Sartre, de Beauvoir and Foucault "I am still sister outsider” Punished…
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Zahira Kelly answers readers’ questions on sex appeal, gentrification, and escaping abusive relationship dynamics.
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