Michael W. Clune is the critically acclaimed author of the memoirs Gamelife and White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin. His academic books include Writing Against Time and American Literature and the Free Market. Clune’s work has appeared in venues ranging from Harper’s, Salon, and Granta, to Behavioral and Brain Sciences, PMLA, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is currently Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, and lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Socialist Freedom and Capitalist Freedom
Michael W. Clune on desire and socialism in Martin Hägglund's "This Life."...
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....
Pop Disappears
THERE ARE TWO KINDS of things, wrote J.L. Austin in an essay that Arthur Danto made famous: things that are ...
Response to "What Was Neoliberalism?": A Debate Between Joshua Clover / Jasper Bernes and Michael W. Clune
Letters to the editor...
What Was Neoliberalism?
Click here to read "Response to 'What Was Neoliberalism?' A Debate Between Joshua Clover / Jasper Bernes and Michael W. Clune." HOW ...
