How to Live Together: Lessons from Algeria
Albert Camus’s Algerian Chronicles, Pierre Bourdieu’s photo-book Picturing Algeria, and Denis Guénoun’s moving family biography, A Semite, invoke lessons on how to live together well.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
Against Common Sense
Rei Terada’s "Looking Away" has given us a grammar for the feeling of wanting to escape from something unfixable.
Introducing “No Crisis”
In "No Crisis," we hope to show that the art of criticism is flourishing, rich with intellectual power and sustaining beauty, in hard times.
An Unabashed Tour d’Horizon: Media in the 20th Century
Can deconstructing and reassembling notions of “media” and “art” lead to a new language of things?
A Static Form of Remembrance
Simon Critchley’s first novel is a postmodern, virulently metafictional blend of essay, autobiography, apocalyptic revelation, and historical examination.
In Praise of Gardens
David E. Cooper reviews Damon Young's "Voltaire’s Vine and Other Philosophies: How Gardens Inspired Great Writers."
The State of Surveillance
"We didn’t particularly set out to write a book about state-sponsored surveillance."
How the Humanities Will Save the World
Read a book, change the world.
Of Labor and Human Bondage: Spinoza, Marx, and the “Willing Slaves” of Capitalism
The relationship between Marx and Spinoza is a profoundly anachronistic one.
Say That Again? Making Sense of Noise
Contributor Lawrence English on Greg Hainge’s "Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise" and "Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond"
The Symbol Is Dead, Long Live the Symbolic
According to Warren Breckman, revolutionary romantic philosophers such as Slavoj Žižek are practicing a form of “Christian-bolshevism” that has lost its way.
Every Which Way but Loose
Accelerationism is picking up speed as a new way to challenge the dominant system.
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