Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly ...
Continue Reading →Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America. Hardly a day goes ...
Continue Reading →Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, consumerism, and history of art. His writing, which ...
Continue Reading →Jean Genet (1910–1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. ...
Continue Reading →Promoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan ¡Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school ...
Continue Reading →In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and ...
Continue Reading →The essays collected here offer an analysis of the irrational dimensions of modern culture which is both timely and disturbing in the 1990s. Adorno’s ideas ...
Continue Reading →From the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world’s oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization. ...
Continue Reading →Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history’s self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives ...
Continue Reading →Liesl Mariejensen Yamaguchi (born February 27, 1984) is an American literary scientist, translation science teacher, and translator. Yamaguchi translated the 1954 novel Unknown Soldier by ...
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