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All Fredric Jameson articles are now open access until the end of October.

The Years of Jameson

Bill Brown For those inhabiting the world of literary theory and cultural criticism, the loss of Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) comes as a disorienting blow like no other. In part this is because his …

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To celebrate Lauren's work at the journal, we have opened access to all of their articles.

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Today we mourn the loss of CI coeditor and author Lauren Berlant (1957-2021). Further commemoration forthcoming.

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CI remembers Fredric Jameson (1934-2024).

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Starting today, we are posting a series of tributes to Lauren Berlant over the next few days. Links to Lauren’s CI articles and tributes can be found at

Losing Lauren Berlant

Joining the faculty in 1984, Lauren Berlant had a transformative impact on students, colleagues, and the intellectual culture at the University of Chicago—most robustly, perhaps, in the ongoing con…

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"Disability studies, even in their 'crip-of-color' manifestations, have remained geographically limited to the US and avoid meaningful engagement with the Global South." New in review, Bassam Sidiki on Sony Coráñez Bolton's Crip Colony, from @DukePress :

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Read "Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity," a 1979 interview with Michel Foucault that was never published and hasn't appeared in English until now, in our Autumn 2020 issue:

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Surplus Data special issue is out!

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"We were trying to build a world out of words: a safe inside for queer thinking and experimentation." Read Elizabeth Freeman's "Without You, I’m Not Necessarily Nothing" on the CI blog.

Without You, I’m Not Necessarily Nothing

Elizabeth Freeman Elegy Who would I show it to —W. S. Merwin Lauren Berlant provoked fantasy. That wasn’t (usually) Lauren’s fault, and it must have been a burden to bear. Someone I’m c…

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"Our time is less nihilistic—since diagnoses of nihilism generally presupposed an observed plenitude for which they were nostalgic—than blocked and disorganized." New in review, Samuel Moyn on Wendy Brown's Nihilistic Times, from @Harvard_Press :

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"Among the strengths of Extraction Ecologies is its demonstration of the continuing power of historicist critique." CI in review - Benjamin Morgan on Elizabeth Carolyn Miller's Extraction Ecologies, from @PrincetonUPress :

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Daniele Lorenzini writes on the current use and misuse of Foucault's notion of the biopolitical in "Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus." Read this latest post on the pandemic on the CI blog.

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"The link between coronavirus and climate is more direct than mere analogy." Read Joshua Clover's "The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour" on the Ci blog.

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"Medium/Environment" special issue is coming soon! Edited by Weihong Bao, Jacob Gaboury, and Daniel Morgan. And a special thank you to Claudia Gori for permission to use her photograph for the cover.

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"I am used to waking up in the seventeenth century. . . . But it is strange that everyone else is suddenly keeping me company there." Read Lorraine Daston's "Ground Zero Empiricism" on the CI blog.

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Read W. J. T. Mitchell's "Remembering Lauren on 28 June 2021."

Remembering Lauren on 28 June 2021

W. J. T. Mitchell “‘I didn’t think it would turn out this way.’” That, according to Lauren Berlant, “is the secret epitaph of intimacy.” It is also the most fitting epitaph for Lauren Berlant’s own…

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R. John Williams travels back in time with his "World Futures" in the latest issue of CI.

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"How, then, do we describe the arts of the possible and convey their urgency?" New on the CI Review - read Kirsten Silva Gruesz's review of Mary Louise Pratt's Planetary Longings, from @DukePress :

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Over the next few weeks, we will be posting short reflections on the history and importance of the journal from members of our editorial board and from frequent contributors to the journal. Join us as we celebrate Critical Inquiry at 50.

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"Not only do media enable ever greater violence; in Kittler’s view, the inherent goal of media technologies may well be war itself." New on the CI Review, Anders Engberg-Pedersen reviews Freidrich Kittler's Operation Valhalla, from @DukePress :

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Surplus Data special issue is coming soon!

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"While the rest of the world has been hell bent on Palestinian erasure, the Popular University insisted on Palestinian recognition." Read Eman Abdelhadi's "Recognition Is Solidarity" on the CI blog.

Recognition Is Solidarity

Eman Abdelhadi In the Muslim tradition, jinn (think genie) are beings made of fire who live in a parallel universe to our own. The jinn are shape shifters, who can appear to humans or retreat…

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Spring is here. Check out "Medium/Environment," our new special issue, featuring articles by Francesco Casetti, D. Cuong O’Neill, Reinhold Martin, Antonio Somaini, Florian Sprenger, Weihong Bao, and Rahul Mukherjee!

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New on The CI Review! Alireza Doostdar reviews Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism by Mana Kia! "Persian was often not a language people were born into, but something they learned through education."

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We are happy to announce that Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is this year's Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor! Professor Chun will teach a class this spring through the University of Chicago English Dept. She will also deliver two public lectures (more info coming soon).

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"Now, after Lauren’s death, I’m not sure what to do with this pain." Read Michael Hardt's "Love Is a Muscle" on the CI blog.

Love Is a Muscle

Michael Hardt I have never met anyone more relentlessly intelligent than Lauren, more intensely present. I remember once saying to them – admittedly, a rather banal comment – that love is a m…

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"Losing Lauren Berlant" (a note from the editors and links to Lauren's work). More to follow.

Losing Lauren Berlant

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"To raise the question of the nature of narrative is to invite reflection on the very nature of culture and, possibly, even on the nature of humanity itself." Hayden White (1928-2018). Read "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality" @

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Summer is here! And so is our issue on kudzu, mushrooms, crystals, Guy Debord, situations, early modern English writing, conformity and dissent in China, fictionality, and Muriel Rukeyser. Check out our new issue at:

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Happy Pride Month! Celebrate with us by reading these essays on queer theory––all free and open to everyone for the month of June 🌈

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Listen to Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty discuss new “questions of concern” and the fight over “facts” and climate change in the world after Trump’s election, free on CI's WB 202 podcast:

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"He convincingly argues that liberalism is enough to lead a good life, but one wonders whether illiberal influences are necessary to lead the best life." Mathis Bitton on Alexandre Lefebvre's Liberalism as a Way of Life, from @PrincetonUPress :

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CI coeditor Lauren Berlant in the current issue of the New Yorker! Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety

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CI's 50th anniversary is coming soon. Check out the cover for the forthcoming issue!

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"Entering the system of digital fungibility then articulates new forms of freedom from capture." New in review, Ina Blom on Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott's Nervous Systems, from @DukePress :

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Dipesh Chakrabarty looks back at his own history with the journal, and he discusses the origins of one of the most popular articles ever published in CI.

CI Moments

Dipesh Chakrabarty Critical Inquiry is fifty! I am sure there have been journals that have lasted longer. But what is remarkable is that CI – not the mouthpiece of a professional association but an…

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Read Lila Abu-Lughod's “Imagining Palestine’s Alter-Natives: Settler Colonialism and Museum Politics,” winner of the GAD Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship. Now open access for a limited time.

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Abstract This reflection on Palestine’s political impasses in relation to the experiences of other colonized places and peoples was inspired by the current ferment in critical indigenous and native...

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Lauren Berlant's "'68, or Something" (1994)

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"Here as elsewhere, Bewes teaches us how to read novelistically, where the lines between insight and experiment are blurred." New in review, Athanassia Williamson on Timothy Bewes's Free Indirect, from @ColumbiaUP :

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@silentpartner80 @_ShamGod I think "Culture and Finance Capital" is a good place to start.

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Lauren Berlant's "Humorlessness (Three Monologues and a Hairpiece)" (2016).

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Autumn 2022 issue is coming soon! Featuring work by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Rachel Galvin, Alan Mikhail, Shaoling Ma, Peter Schwenger, and Timothy Howles. Plus cover artwork courtesy of Fabienne Verdier!

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"Like today’s contentious politics of literacy, the historiography of the alphabet’s origins reveals high-stakes commitments and biases." New in review, Patricia Crain on Johanna Drucker's Inventing the Alphabet, from @UChicagoPress :

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To celebrate Lauren's work at the journal, we have opened access to all of their articles.

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"When Aseyev is released, the freedom brings new traumas. How to cope with happy people after years in Isolation?" New in review, Lisa Hajjar on Stanislav Aseyev's The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, from @Harvard_Press :

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"It is a time of uncertainty and therefore responsibility—and something like community." Read Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's "Net-munity, or The Space between Us ... Will Open the Future" on the CI blog.

Net-munity, or The Space between Us … Will Open the Future

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun I write this during a time when we feel acutely the stakes and consequences of connection, polarization, infrastructures, models, and habits. To many, it seems a world turned …

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Summer issue coming soon, with articles by Yota Batsaki; S. Pearl Brilmyer; Natalia Cecire and Samuel Solomon; Marcie Frank, Kevin Pask, and Ned Schantz; Hang Tu; András Kiséry; Rosalind Morris; and Noel Blanco Mourelle. The kudzu is creeping your way . . .

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To celebrate CI's 50th anniversary, Lorraine Daston spends "an agreeable day perusing the online archive of Critical Inquiry."

How We Know What We Know

Lorraine Daston Why is there no epistemology of the humanities that is even remotely comparable to the epistemology of the sciences? Why is it that humanists can gesture to only a handful of semina…

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Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner's "Sex in Public" (1998)

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"No mere study in digital screens, Image Objects also offers an expansive profile of how vision and computation collaborate in producing our current, but not quite present, world." Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reviews Image Objects by Jacob Gaboury:

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"Edelman argues that his version of queer theory and Afro-pessimism can be linked through their antagonism to the category of the human." New in review, Heather Love on Lee Edelman's Bad Education, from @DukePress :

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In memory of Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021). Read his "The Conflicts of the Faculty." Open access at:

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Summer is here! Check out the latest issue of CI. Featuring work by Joshua Gang, Virginia Jackson, John Durham Peters and Adam Wickberg, Sophia Roosth, Zachary Tavlin, Martin Lefebvre, Bécquer Seguín, and Carl Schmitt.

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Lauren Berlant's "Eve Sedgwick, Once More" (2009). "Once upon a time, a . . . woman wearing a purple caftan concluded a talk on the erotics of poetic form by inviting my colleagues to rethink sexuality through . . . their own anal eroticism."

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Rea Amit reviews Seeing by Electricity by Doron Galili! "The book challenges a commonly accepted historical narrative, and suggests instead a more flexible and broader contextualization of radio, television, and film as mutually contributing networks."

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"Pasquinelli’s methodology is not geared toward elevating the voices of those immiserated by these technologies or their predecessors." New in review, Marc Kohlbry on Mateo Pasquinelli's The Eye of the Master, from @VersoBooks :

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Summer 2021 issue coming soon!

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Spring issue is coming soon!

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Autumn is here. Featuring work by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Rachel Galvin, Alan Mikhail, Shaoling Ma, Peter Schwenger, and Timothy Howles. Plus cover artwork courtesy of Fabienne Verdier!

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"For Lauren, enduring was not a minimalist practice. She showed up." Read Katie Stewart's "After Lauren" on the CI blog.

After Lauren

Katie Stewart Lauren hated academic politics. Collaboration took its ferocious place. A bossy push for associational thinking together. She wanted reaction; she wanted to be edited; she wante…

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"Primarily Big Fiction relays the prevalence of corporate allegory in successful novels; corporate house titles incorporate implicit significations of conglomerate publishing." New in review, Anna Kornbluh on Dan Sinykin's Big Fiction, from @ColumbiaUP :

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"We must reclaim the lungs of our world with a view to forging new ground. Humankind and biosphere are one. Alone, humanity has no future." Read Achille Mbembe's "The Universal Right to Breathe" on the CI blog.

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Autumn 2020 issue is coming soon!

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OPEN ACCESS - Leo Bersani's "'Ardent Masturbation' (Descartes, Freud, and Others)"

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Support our friends at Verso, longtime publishers of Jameson's work.

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Few radical thinkers have had such a massive impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy. We mourn the loss of Fredric Jameson and encourage everyone to revisit the many excellent works he produced in his lifetime.

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W. J. T. Mitchell's "From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence"

From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence | Los Angeles Review of Books

W. J. T. Mitchell asks, What kind of intelligence does AI actually represent?

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We are pleased to announce that Saidiya Hartman is the 2018 Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor. Details about Professor Hartman's May 2018 class and public lectures are forthcoming.

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"In evolutionary terms, humans and viruses have adopted diametrically opposed strategies." Read N. Katherine Hayles's "Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus" on the CI blog.

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"Postcritique literary scholars apparently welcome CLS as a worthy fellow traveler in the move from depth to surface reading." From our new issue, read Katherine Bode's "What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?":

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"The Berlant opening, at once an invitation and a provocation, is by design disorienting." Read Caleb Smith's "The Berlant Opening" on the CI blog.

The Berlant Opening

Caleb Smith An opening might be a welcoming ceremony or it might be an attack. At an artist’s opening, guests are invited to see new work for the first time; in a game like chess, one player’s open…

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"His aim is to illuminate the damaging effects of transphobic hostility and discrimination which can be countered solely through the documentation and performance of rage." Shwetha Chandrashekhar on Hil Malatino's Side Affects, from @UMinnPress :

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"Stewart’s own remarkable practice of close reading . . . serves as key to the present book’s integration of both siloed subdisciplines and language philosophy." New in CI: John Cayley reviews Garrett Stewart's Book, Text, Medium, from @CambridgeUP :

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"This excellent book begins with the observation that breath has traditionally been overlooked by both literature and literary study..." New in Review, Cory Stockwell on Stefanie Heine's Poetics of Breathing, from @SUNYPress :

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Summer is coming soon (redux)!

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Introduction to a Forum on Veena Das’s Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

Introduction to a Forum on Veena Das’s Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgen...

Starting on Monday, Critical Inquiry brings together, over the course of a week, five scholars – three philosophers and two anthropologists – to discuss Veena Das’s Text…

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"The book’s welcoming overture to ecocriticism will provide an important point of entry for many of its readers." New in review, James Chandler on Kevis Goodman's Pathologies of Motion, from @yalepress :

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Autumn issue coming soon!

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"In the end, the environment will not save us—or save media theory—from political impasses or conceptual aporias." From our new Spring issue, read "Introduction: Medium/Environment" from Weihong Bao, Jacob Gaboury, and Daniel Morgan:

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"From this perspective, it seems less and less likely that a concept can be measured by its truth content the way the older thought always seemed to ask us to do." From our new issue, read Fredric Jameson's "Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought":

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The online response to the series has been overwhelming. With close to 150,000 views so far, the blog is being read and commented on by readers all across the world. We’ve never seen anything like it. Thank you for reading and writing!

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See the entire series of CI pandemic posts here:

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"I thought that, by seventy-eight, I had seen everything." Editor W.J.T. Mitchell sums up the pandemic series (and the current moment) in "Groundhog Day and the Epoché." Read it on the CI blog.

Groundhog Day and the Epoché

W. J. T. Mitchell I thought that, by seventy-eight, I had seen everything. Every epidemic from polio to AIDS to SARS. Every war from Korea to Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan and the endless, stupi…

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The 2022 Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor class is now listed. Chicago graduate students, sign up soon for Catherine Malabou's "Philosophy and Anarchy" [ENGL 60220].

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See the entire series of CI pandemic posts here:

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Don't miss A Life in Postcolonial Theory: Homi K. Bhabha interviewed by Dipesh Chakrabarty this Thursday at 6pm CST! Find more info and a link to sign up here:

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New on the CI Review! Martin Jay reviews _The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory_ by Amy Allen.

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"Let's respect this long, painful, and unexpected fast." Read Bruno Latour's "Is This a Dress Rehearsal?" on the CI blog

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"As the perception of space is reconditioned in life under Covid, our encounters with fictional spaces, and with what and how they express, alters." Read Kyle Stevens's "When Movies Get Sick" on the CI blog

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"One side effect of the jobs crisis in academia has been the emergence of a scholarly subfield devoted to coming up with reasons why the humanities are foundering but ought, all the same, to exist." Anahid Nersessian reviews Eric Hayot's Humanist Reason:

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"A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory." Read Ted Underwood's "The Empirical Triumph of Theory."

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Join us for our first Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor Lecture this year! Saidiya Hartman - "An Intimate History of Slavery and Freedom." 10 May @ 5pm in SS122. Details at

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Congratulations to CI coeditor Lauren Berlant for her Guggenheim fellowship!

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"It is no longer enough to say that data is big. Data is now in a state of surplus." Read the introduction to our Winter 2022 special issue on Surplus Data edited by Orit Halpern, Patrick Jagoda, Jeffrey West Kirkwood, and Leif Weatherby:

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"History's death drive is unstoppable"— @jthomastremblay reviews Geontologies for the CI Review

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Summer is here! Read essays by, David Alff, Anna Shechtman, Lital Levy, Bruno Latour, Theo Reeves-Evison, Paul Michael Kurtz, and N. Katherine Hayles.

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