Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Editors' Note, Vol. 32: Back to School
Passage through school is supposed to be what makes the unequal distribution of violence and luxury in the bourgeois world a fair outcome.
Announcing Rahel Aima
The New Inquiry is pleased to announce our newest contributing editor Rahel Aima. Rahel is co-editor at THE STATE. Her research interests include alternative futurisms,…
You Drank Some Darkness
What is hidden between here, where you stand, and there?
Guides for the Perplexed
A compendium of college disorientation guides
The rich go to the zoo
Are hyenas Crossfit?
Screening: Art and Craft @ Videology 9/18
The New Inquiry and Oscilloscope present a FREE pre-release screening of the new documentary Art and Craft at Videology The story of prolific art forger…
Advance Screening: We Don't Like Samba
A new documentary about Brazilian riots and protests against the bus-fare hike, the FIFA World Cup and favela clearing.
Radical Strain
We listen to women the same way we look at them.
Sunday Reading
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When the rich walk
For the rich, when they walk, there is no firmament
Objects and Clarity
Objectively, Eric Garner was not killed by police because he was black. Objectively: "On July 17, 2014, in Staten Island, New York, United States, Eric…
I Woke Up Like This
The health rave breaks with party culture by harnessing its wasteful expenditure to the goal of productivity.
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, September 5, 2014
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Appetite for Destruction
Why the NFL is a special kind of car crash
Nothing Short of a Revolution
For all the talk of community and locality central to social justice rhetoric, people have been willing to believe that any sort of radicalism is alien.
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