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."...
Jan Mieszkowski
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).
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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 interview with the translator of the book, and co-editor of the series, Peggy Kamuf. Jan Mieszkowski on The Death ...
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. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands WHO'S AFRAID OF THE INTELLECTUALS? Perhaps it’s the same people who can’t get enough ...
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 the fateful 2001 attacks from taking place: “The most important failure,” they declared in a statement widely cited ...
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