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by Scott Ferguson | 10.10.2018

To address neoliberalism’s globalized crises, we must abandon the exculpatory logics of modern sovereignty and avow the universal dependence articulated in Thomas Aquinas’s conception of ‘natural law’.

Biography as Novel: A Look at Cavafy in Love

by Gregory Jusdanis | 09.24.2018

Given the absences in the Cavafy archive regarding the poet's sexuality, we have no choice but to fill in the gaps with our imagination, bringing together disparate stories and reading between the lines.

Unsentimental Vistas

by Ayten Tartici | 09.11.2018

In the endless debate between the old and the new, does sentimentality get in the way? How do we reconcile the desire to preserve the urban landscapes of the past with the need to meet the living needs of the present?

Auerbach's Simplicity

by Christopher Warley | 08.28.2018

The task of literary criticism must be to make the pure epiphanies of a text as obvious as possible—to learn Auerbach’s art of simplicity.

The Critical Horizon of Barbara K. Lewalski

by Roland Greene | 08.20.2018

A reflection on an influential figure in the genre-oriented criticism of the late twentieth century.

Against Hate: The US Supreme Court, Islam, and Justice in a Xenophobic Age (IV)

by Mohammad Salama | 08.20.2018

Reflections on the Supreme Court during the Trump Presidency as the tattered clothes of National Security conceal the viciousness of partisan politics and xenophobia.

Costs and Crossings: on Apolline Traoré’s "Borders"

by Lindsay Turner | 08.01.2018

Traoré’s 2017 film reminds us that the border itself is a problematic institution. Even in its most stripped-down form, a border exists for the exercise of power against those populations whose movements it controls. Who crosses—and at what cost—depends on lines of race, class, and gender.

The End of Nationalism?

by Gregory Jusdanis | 07.16.2018

Kosovo illustrates how nationhood can bring peace and hope to a community in spite of nationalism's legacy of war, historical revisionism, and oppression.

Artificial Intelligence and The Fall of Eve

by Kathryn Hume | 07.10.2018

Does AI represent a radically new direction for humanity? Or is it simply the latest iteration of a myth structuring our world into a hierarchy that glorifies the divine at the expense of the mundane?

My Problem with OOO or, Reflections on a McNugget

by Sarah Wasserman | 06.28.2018

Why turn a chicken nugget into a toy? If all objects hold something back from us, as scholars of object-oriented ontology have argued, then who are we to say what secrets the television or the pillow may hold?