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    End of Semester Recap and Review

    End of Semester Recap and Review

    having experience becomes common out-of-the-ordinary-thoughts having given to one's peer group real or imagined, in list form to be ...
    Review of Michael Marder’s “For a Phytocentrism to Come”

    Review of Michael Marder’s “For a Phytocentrism to Come”

    Can Western critical theory decenter anthropos, the human? The formulation of the “Anthropocene” as a geological era suggests that human ...
    Nostalgia and Melancholia

    Nostalgia and Melancholia

    I’ll wrap up my semester-long look at nostalgia with some insights on Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” that occurred to me while readin...
    Humanities on the Edge Lecture Review: Gregg Lambert

    Humanities on the Edge Lecture Review: Gregg Lambert

    The crowd in the Sheldon Museum sat slightly perplexed last Thursday as this unsettling recording of Antonin Artuad’s To Have Done With t...
    Weedy Environmental Justice

    Weedy Environmental Justice

    Many people mark the beginning of contemporary environmentalism with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962. Carson dep...
    Humanities on the Edge Article Review: Gregg Lambert

    Humanities on the Edge Article Review: Gregg Lambert

    In The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt’s dazzling new novel (released earlier this year), Harry Burden has a problem with the art world. A s...
    Humanities on the Edge Article Review: Gregg Lambert

    Humanities on the Edge Article Review: Gregg Lambert

    I was in my eighteenth year when the first gulf war started in 1990 (the one that Baudrillard said didn’t actually happen). Except for th...

    The Boundary and the Leak

    No less than thirty years ago, Albert Borgmann introduced the influential “device paradigm” in his Technology and the Character of Contem...
    Competing Nostalgias and the Politics of the Accessible Poem

    Competing Nostalgias and the Politics of the Accessible Poem

    “…we have to get over, as in getting over a disease, the idea that we can ‘all’ speak to one another in the universal voice of poetry” (C...
    Desire, Anxiety, and Scat

    Desire, Anxiety, and Scat

    Shit stinks. But it don’t taste like anything. That nigger shit a horse turd too! I bit. It mashed out against the corner of my mouth. I ...
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