Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Alexander Galloway
Part 2 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities as well as the digital in the humanities as it currently exists in the US academy.
The Limits of Absurdity
Albert Camus's confusion over Americans has become our confusion, while his observations cut as deeply today as they did 70 years ago.
Embarrassing Ourselves
The Introduction to the new translation of "On Grammatology," the Afterword, and the revisions to the translation all represent significant steps backward.
The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Franco Moretti
Part 1 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities as well as the digital in the humanities as it currently exists in the US academy.
Uncreative Writing for a Digital Age
For Kenneth Goldsmith, “contentious” has become something of a brand.
Whose Criticism? On A. O. Scott’s “Better Living Through Criticism”
"What has to happen in a person's life for them to become a critic, anyway?"
Opt Out
Bernard Harcourt does a masterful job identifying desire as the engine that powers the voluntary surveillance conundrum.
“How to Do People with Things”: On the first 10 titles in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series
The joy of the series lies in encountering the various turns to which each of their authors has been put by his or her object.
Pedagogy with a Hammer: On the Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for a Neoliberal Era
Gone is the heyday of the enlightened institution. It is possible, some fear, that an anti-education has emerged in its wake.
On Algorithmic Communism
In demanding something like fully automated luxury communism, Srnicek and Williams are ultimately asserting the rights of humanity as a whole to share in the spoils of capitalism.
Remembering Bodies
Hurricane Katrina made visible what Butler has called the differential distribution of precarity.
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