Jan Mieszkowski is professor of German and Comparative Literature at Reed College. He is the author of Watching War (2012) and Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (2006).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Texts for Nothing
Eric Jarosinski first made a name for himself as a Twitter aphorist; he now continues his project in book form with "Nein. A Manifesto."...
Derrida on the Death Penalty
Today, a review of the latest volume of Jacques Derrida's seminars to be published, The Death Penalty, Volume I, and an ...
Derrida and the Death Penalty
Jan Mieszkowski reviews The Death Penalty, which contains the first 11 sessions of Derrida’s two-year seminar on the subject....
The Banality of Intellect: Christian Ingrao’s “Believe and Destroy”
Triptych image: Gerhard Katz, photographer unknown, 1926 Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. — ...
The Militarized Imagination: On Napalm and Nuclear Warfare
IN ITS FINAL REPORT issued in July 2004, the 9/11 Commission concluded that much could have been done to prevent ...
