Uncreative Writing for a Digital Age
For Kenneth Goldsmith, “contentious” has become something of a brand.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
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.
Are We Postcritical?
In "The Limits of Critique," Felski argues that critique has become the very kind of common sense it sets out to expose.
Where Does Inequality Come From?
Harry Frankfurt has elegantly and brilliantly undergirded the centrist liberal's rejection of equality as a goal.
Before and After “Eichmann in Jerusalem”: Hannah Arendt and the Human Condition
A Jew who was (and is) called anti-Semitic for her controversial portrait of Eichmann.
Impurity: Two Books on the Anthropocene
The bibliography on life during climate change has swelled in recent years. Purdy and Scranton each offer a powerful reckoning with our bewildering present.
Troubles with Three-ism: Body, Mind, and Soul
Owen Flanagan reviews George Makari's "Soul Machine."
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