Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah Purdy lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and teaches law and political thought at Duke. He is the author of five books, including After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene. You can follow him on Twitter.

Fiery Heaven, Bastard Earth: The Cosmology of “Game of Thrones”

Jedediah Purdy on why the pleasures of "A Song of Ice and Fire" aren't just narrative and political, but also cosmological....

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TELEVISION

The Art of the Possible: Peter Frase’s “Four Futures”

Jedediah Purdy on Peter Frase’s work of science fiction social theory “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism”...

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POLITICS

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Maybe Connect

What brings Ta-Nehisi Coates and Elena Ferrante together is their shared refusal to give us the connection we desire....

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LITERARY CRITICISM

Killing It

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FOOD & DRINK

To Have and Have Not

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