Michael W. Clune’s most recent critical book is A Defense of Judgment (2021). The 10th anniversary edition of his book White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin will appear in March 2023. He is currently Knight Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University.
Michael W. Clune
Articles
The Paradox Paradox: On Elizabeth S. Anker’s “On Paradox”
Michael W. Clune takes a dive at Elizabeth S. Anker‘s “On Paradox: The Claims of Theory.”
What Does Literary Studies Know?
Michael Clune reads Jonathan Kramnick’s “Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness.”
Thought Against Life: Cyrus Console’s “Romanian Notebook”
Michael W. Clune on Cyrus Console’s “Romanian Notebook.”
Loving the Alien: Thomas Ligotti and the Psychology of Cosmic Horror
We have fallen in love with the world revealed by H.P. Lovecraft's fiction, but we have not understood what we love or why. Thomas Ligotti shows us.
Against Common Sense
Rei Terada’s "Looking Away" has given us a grammar for the feeling of wanting to escape from something unfixable.
Response to "What Was Neoliberalism?": A Debate Between Joshua Clover / Jasper Bernes and Michael W. Clune
Letters to the editor
What Was Neoliberalism?
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