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by Cosana Eram | 03.07.2016

When does glossing become an authorial act? Can citation become a creative act?

Campus Protests and Whiteness as Property

by David Shih | 02.01.2016

Student demands for changes to their educational experience threaten white property interests in the curriculum. Faculty defenses of the status quo will reveal the nature of those interests.

On the spectrum, p.p.

by Hannah Walser | 01.25.2016

How the autism spectrum in the popular imagination overlaps with and feeds a particular feature of European-American whiteness: the bias toward independence and self-sufficiency.

How Cervantes Made His Characters Seem Real

by William Egginton | 01.21.2016

His novel contribution to fiction derives from a fascination with how characters perceive and misperceive situations.

9 Theses toward a Neochartalist Philosophy of Capitalism

by Scott Ferguson | 01.15.2016

These 9 theses raise questions about what it means to use the signifier “capitalism” to name the economic system money conditions. When we label the totality money mediates “capitalism,” we obscure money’s status as a public utility, make its capacities to serve communal and environmental wellbeing imperceptible.

Swirling with the Sufis in Marrakesh

by Gregory Jusdanis | 12.21.2015

For travelers it is difficult to untangle from the contradictions of tourism, colonialism, and inequality.

A Tale of Two Prometheuses (III): Ecomodernists and the new Frankensteinism

by Anthony Galluzzo | 12.14.2015

The ecomodernists envision a decoupling from nature founded on further integration into private markers and technical innovation.

Ziyad ibn ‘Amir al-Kinani and El Libro del Caballero Zifar

by David Wacks | 12.07.2015

Did the 'lady in the lake' motif of Arthurian legends make it to Castilian via an Arabic chivalric tradition?

Enter Anthropocene, c.1610

by Steve Mentz | 12.01.2015

Rather than marking the advent of "modernity," the year 1610 commemorates a wave of permanent human-induced changes to the Earth system.

A Tale of Two Prometheuses (II): Against the False Idols of Accelerationism

by Anthony Galluzzo | 11.25.2015

To prevent social and ecological disaster, an alternative Prometheanism requires a turn away from power, production and profit towards a new relationship to necessity and the natural world.