The New Inquiry

Oct 24, 2024 | thenewinquiry.com | Danielle Wu

EunsongKim is a poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. Her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, traces the history of US museums to conceptual artists like Marcel Duchamp to dispel myths around artistic merit, avant garde art, and white male genius.

Oct 2, 2024 | thenewinquiry.com | Jake Romm

Itis difficult to overstate the centrality of shipping to contemporary capitalism. Indeed, without shipping, it is difficult to imagine the birth of capitalism at all. Between 80 and 90% of world trade takes place via shipping, accounting for around 50% of the value of all trade in goods for the European Union and the United States, a figure which rises to 60% for China. Together, these economies account for half of the global GDP.

Sep 26, 2024 | thenewinquiry.com | Kim Hew-Low

On the question “how are we to live in an atomic age?” the writer C.S. Lewis declared, in a 1948 essay, that we think “a great deal too much” about atomic annihilation. Referencing this on her podcast, Homemaker Chic—dedicated to “rescuing the art of homemaking from the daily grind with red lips”—the homesteader Shaye Elliott describes taking comfort from Lewis whenever she feels overwhelmed by the state of the world.

Jun 24, 2024 | thenewinquiry.com | Eleanor Stern

Agrinning young couple points upward toward a caption reading “our simple seggs aftercare routine.” They playact the steps: shower, snuggle, bed. Scroll: next video, a woman in sunglasses tells us, “once again in Central Florida, Yahtzees are out in numbers protesting.” Behind her, green-screened, a photo of men in red shirts and black masks, holding flags emblazoned with swastikas.

Jun 11, 2024 | thenewinquiry.com | Taylor Miller

It was dusk for kilometers and bats in the lavender sky,like spiders when a fly is caught, began to appear. And there, not the promised land, but barbwire and barbwirewith nothing growing under it. [from Javier Zamora’s “Saguaros”]There are currently more than 170 encampments—from Humboldt to Río Piedras, San Juan…Kyoto to Te Wānanga o Aotearoa where students and allies are co-creating present and future spaces of learning, of revolution.