All Essays

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  Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism

  Arne De Boever, Eduardo Mendieta, Imanol GalfarsoroJan 19, 2014
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  City, Memory, and Dream: On Roger Rosenblatt’s "The Boy Detective"

  Scott Nadelson visits New York then and now with Roger Rosenblatt.

  Scott NadelsonJan 17, 2014
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  Dismantling the Echo Chamber: On Africa SF

  Andrea HairstonJan 17, 2014
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  Girls, Season 3: "Females Only" and "Truth or Dare"

  Dear Television on HBO's Girls Season 3 premiere

  Anne Helen Petersen, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakJan 16, 2014
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  Pixel Dust: Illusions of Innovation in Scholarly Publishing

  There is no technological fix.

  Johanna Drucker Jan 16, 2014
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  Like Trenton But Without the Thrills: The Writing of Camden Joy

  What’s in a name, asks Benjamin Bush about Camden Joy, and he answers, too.

  Ben BushJan 13, 2014
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  Auerbach in Istanbul

  Erich Auerbach’s life in Istanbul, after escaping the Nazis, and his greatest work, "Mimesis"

  Kaya GençJan 12, 2014
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  NEW COMICS

  Anne Elizabeth MooreJan 11, 2014
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  Feminism and Comics

  Sexuality is more than gay and straight, and probably even more than LGBTQIA. Comics are here to help.

  Greg BaldinoJan 11, 2014
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  Those Still Going on About Ralph Nader Electing Bush in 2000 Should Desist

  If Ralph Nader owes us an apology for making Bush president, does John Kerry owe us one too?

  Tom GallagherJan 10, 2014

• Real People as Fictional Characters: Some Comic, Sad, and Dangerous Encounters

  From where do a writer's characters come? Who are they, finally?

  John RechyJan 10, 2014
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  In Praise of Epiphanies

  David E. Cooper looks at the meaning of epiphanies in our lives.

  David E. CooperJan 6, 2014
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  A Brief Glossary of Financial Cataclysm

  The Big Crash 101: how to understand the evaporation of trillions of dollars.

  Tom StreithorstJan 6, 2014
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  PART FOUR of Imagining Alien Sex: Preparing for the Alien

  "What might serve as a guide as we potentially embrace the posthuman? What might assist us in thinking through the consequences of such posthumanity? Science fiction certainly assists us in imagining possible futures."

  David Lumb, Jonathan Alexander, Karen YescavageJan 6, 2014
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  Seeing Water in Los Angeles: On Lethe’s banks

  Los Angeles's riparian history

  Laura BlissJan 5, 2014
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  PART THREE of Imagining Alien Sex: Alien Sex Goes Mainstream: "Star Trek"

  Jonathan AlexanderJan 4, 2014