Cultural Studies

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

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  Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities

  Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillete, and David Golumbia explain how Digital Humanities plays a lead role in the corporatist restructuring of the humanities.

  Daniel Allington, David Golumbia, Sarah BrouilletteMay 1, 2016

  • Cultural Studies

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  A Prophetic Vision of Haiti’s Past

  Jeremy Matthew Glick's "The Black Radical Tragic" is a book we were all waiting for without knowing it.

  Slavoj ŽižekApr 17, 2016

  • Cultural Studies

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  The Future of Academic Style: Why Citations Still Matter in the Age of Google

  An argument for the importance of academic citation in the digital age.

  Kathleen FitzpatrickMar 29, 2016

  • Cultural Studies

• Speaking Substances: Bodies

  The Oglala Lakota chief Red Cloud, who lived from 1822–1909, is distinguished by two unusual superlatives.

  Kyla SchullerMar 23, 2016

  • Cultural Studies

  • History

  • Science & Technology

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  Islam’s Forgotten Booklovers

  Nile Green on the literary, critical, avant-garde, and unorthodox voices that have always been part of Muslim societies.

  Nile GreenMar 16, 2016

  • Around the World

  • Cultural Studies

  • Religion

• Two Decades of Hip

  Too glib an analysis of a complex time.

  Robert FayMar 11, 2016

  • Cultural Studies

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  Sexual Ableism

  Fighting sexual ableism doesn't mean ignoring abuse or exonerating Anna Stubblefield.

  David M. PerryFeb 25, 2016

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  On Shit: Profanity as Weltanschauung

  The first time you hear your beloved 10-year-old say motherfucker: well, on that day something changes. Why does it disturb us so?

  Mark EdmundsonDec 29, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

  • Memoir & Essay

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  The Opium Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene

  David Palumbo-Liu interviews author and cultural critic Amitav Ghosh.

  David Palumbo-LiuDec 28, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

  • Politics

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  Left Behind: Why Marxists Need Anarchists, and Vice Versa

  Any history of anarchism — like Andrew Cornell's new book "Unruly Equality" — is a third-place history of leftism.

  Malcolm HarrisDec 20, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

  • Politics

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  Faith and Fat Chances: An Interview with Carla Trujillo

  Carla Trujillo interviewed by Alex Espinoza

  Alex EspinozaDec 19, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

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  The Return of the Repressed

  Arabic is one of the six most spoken languages in the world today, with more than 400 million people using one of its varieties.

  Kaya GençDec 11, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

  • Nonfiction