On Paradox: The Claims of Theory

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

The Paradox Paradox: On Elizabeth S. Anker’s “On Paradox”

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Socialist Freedom and Capitalist Freedom

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Paper Minds

What Does Literary Studies Know?

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Romanian Notebook

Thought Against Life: Cyrus Console’s “Romanian Notebook”

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Loving the Alien: Thomas Ligotti and the Psychology of Cosmic Horror

Against Common Sense

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

A Questionable Shape

The Crisis of Infinite Worlds

Pop Disappears

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

<h4>Jasper Bernes is the author of We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015), a previous collection of poems Starsdown (2007), and is currently completing a book of literary history, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization, about the role of poetry in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Excerpts from We Are Nothing and So Can You have appeared in Lana Turner, The American Reader, the Capilano Review, Hi Zero, Prelude, and elsewhere. His writing on contemporary politics and political economy can be found in venues such as The New Inquiry, LARB, Endnotes, and Viewpoint. He lives in Berkeley with his family and teaches in the English Department at Stanford University.</h4>

Jasper Bernes

<h4>Joshua Clover is author of six books and has been translated into a dozen languages. His two latest are&nbsp;Red Epic&nbsp;(Commune Editions) and&nbsp;Riot. Strike. Riot.: The New Era of Uprisings&nbsp;(Verso). A columnist at&nbsp;The Nation, he is a cofounder of <a href="http://communeeditions.com/">Commune Editions</a>. He is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Davis.</h4>

Joshua Clover

Response to "What Was Neoliberalism?": A Debate Between Joshua Clover / Jasper Bernes and Michael W. Clune

Masters of the Universe

What Was Neoliberalism?

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.