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.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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....
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”...
Maybe Connect
What brings Ta-Nehisi Coates and Elena Ferrante together is their shared refusal to give us the connection we desire....
Killing It
Local parsnips are nice, but artisanal killing is the food movement’s perfection....
To Have and Have Not
As it builds its case for an inexorable conflict between democracy and capitalism, it leads its reader to an urgent question: how can democracy prevail?...
