Guides for the Perplexed
cover of the 2011 UCSC disorientation guide, via A collection of disorientation guides from colleges across North America. Universities are among the most widely celebrated institutions of...
Editors' Note, Vol. 44: Counterfeit
This is the editorial note to TNI Vol. 44: Counterfeit. View the full table of contents here. Subscribe to TNI for $3 and get Counterfeit (plus free access...
Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
Print on Demand
...different expectations of an installation like The Incidental Insurgents than of a state archive, and its relationship to capital also differs greatly: Basel and Ruanne won both the 2015 Sharjah...
Sorry, Ladies: No World Hair Cup for Women
...Cup in 2015? It would make sense, in some ways. Internationally speaking, women’s soccer still lags behind men’s in popularity and professional participation, but in the United States, that wasn’t...
Autonomy in Kurdistan
...years, such as liberation in culture, art, gender relations, a new democratic perspective, organization of all sections of society on the basis of politics, civil society, and gender. We saw...
Counterfeit
“The New Inquiry” was christened knowing exactly how much the title appropriated the sound of established literary magazines, despite being founded in opposition to their legacy. To our...
Victory and Its Consequences (Part II)
...to create a desirable future for the ZAD post-cancellation.10 We could name some other desirable futures: fighting against land grabs by industrial agriculture; self-built housing that frees itself from urban...
Syria’s Desaparecidos
...its independent agents, estimates that over 65,000 people disappeared between March 2011 and August 2015. Of all the blood spilled in Syria’s war, forced disappearance has received comparably little attention;...
Panpsychism's Labyrinth
...from the “inauthentic.” Bloch’s work “demonstrates a radical indifference to the problem of objectification in culture,” Rabinbach writes, “and therefore to the problem of whether or not objectification constitutes the...
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.
Human Nature
...is not a social system; it is a way of organizing nature.” Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital Jason W. Moore Verso 2015 336...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
Sunday Reading
...teachers' strike adds power to nationwide movements against inequality and racism Clock is ticking on the destruction of Chicago police misconduct files The real story of Sandra Bland "You know...
Critical Moments: Strength Through Unity
...getting killed in the streets for just trying to walk fucking home. Fascism is gentrification, and the class divide present in the streets, with the various colored shirts on private...
Canceled Message (Part Three)
...examples, like Japanese classical artists, who would burn their archives, as artists. Rather than accumulate, they were interested in affluence, but not abundance. And I think there’s a difference between...