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by Ali Shakir | 05.24.2018

A translated excerpt from a memoir describing Iraq during the Gulf War and the misery and uncertainty plaguing those living in war zones.

Pomes Bitcoineach

by William Flesch | 04.23.2018

Can poetry help us understand blockchain? Are Bitcoins a new genre of poetry?

Virtual Reality or What Used to Be Called Literature

by Gregory Jusdanis | 04.30.2018

Literature creates what virtual reality tries to erase: the frame or boundary we fashion around the fabricated image that helps to better appreciate the real one.

Abbas Kiarostami’s Digital Turn

by Ayten Tartici | 04.30.2018

In his final film, the late Iranian director pushes the boundary between photography and film to its limit by breaking down the distinction between moment and duration. This reimagination of form would never have been possible without Kiarostami’s openness to digital techniques.

Why Only Art Can Save Us: An Interview with Santiago Zabala

by Leonardo Franceschini | 04.19.2018

On the vital role of the arts and hermeneutics in the current political climate.

White People in Pictures: Forgetting Histories and Kazuo Ishiguro’s "The Buried Giant"

by Holly Crocker | 04.02.2018

By seeing how heroic masculinity passes on a legacy of hatred and violence that continues old injustices, what comes to the fore is the vital need to acknowledge our own personal connections to histories of violence.

Whence Newton in the Seventeenth-Century Afro-American Tropics?

by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra | 03.22.2018

Maligned in popular conceptions of the history of medicine, Afro-American religious healers in early modern Cartagena played a constructive role in the development of an science that privileged empiricism over dogma in Pablo Gómez's new study, The Experiential Caribbean.

Hiding Spaces: on Aki Kaurismäki's "The Other Side of Hope"

by Lindsay Turner | 03.06.2018

A Finnish film about the inhumanity and pervasive danger of a system that functions to deny asylum and force deportation, even if that film is warm-hearted, should also be deeply unsettling to US viewers in 2018.

Privileging your checks

by William Flesch | 02.27.2018

When playing chess, what do you mean when you say "check"? Per Wittgenstein, perhaps we communicate in ways that have surprisingly little to do with what we actually say.

Walking Along Newtown Creek

by Steve Mentz | 02.12.2018

Rather than ignoring the toxic legacies of our industrial past, what if we engaged with remnants such as Newtown Creek to imagine a more fluid and dynamic Antropocene that moves away from green fantasies towards assessing troubling but necessary realities?