Rebecca Ariel Porte is a member of the Core Faculty at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is at work on a book about Paradise, Arcadia, and the Golden Age.

Rebecca Ariel Porte

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a writer and historian, currently completing a book about laboratory-grown meat and the history of the future of food. His books include&nbsp;Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt&nbsp;and&nbsp;Jews at Williams: Inclusion, Exclusion and Class at a New England Liberal Arts College.&nbsp;

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Rockets and Voltaire: A Dialogue on Ada Palmer’s “Terra Ignota”

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

A Poet of Hungers: A Conversation with Maureen N. McLane

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

Poetry

Gallery of Clouds

Lives of the Critics; or, Et in Arcadia Ego

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Marvelous Things Overheard

The Aesthetics of Enchantment: Ange Mlinko’s "Marvelous Things Overheard"

Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Chris Marker

All That Is The Case: On Susan Howe’s Chris Marker

Our Aesthetic Categories

The Zany, the Cute, and the Interesting: On Ngai’s “Our Aesthetic Categories”

Rebecca Ariel Porte is a member of the Core Faculty at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is at work on a book about Paradise, Arcadia, and the Golden Age.