Game of Thrones is bristling with sociopaths. The most successful characters (measured in terms of episodes survived, or the power they...

having experience becomes common out-of-the-ordinary-thoughts having given to one's peer group real or imagined, in list form to be...

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

I’ll wrap up my semester-long look at nostalgia with some insights on Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” that occurred to me while...

The crowd in the Sheldon Museum sat slightly perplexed last Thursday as this unsettling recording of Antonin Artuad’s To Have Done With...

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...

In The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt’s dazzling new novel (released earlier this year), Harry Burden has a problem with the art world. A...

Many people mark the beginning of contemporary environmentalism with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962. Carson...

No less than thirty years ago, Albert Borgmann introduced the influential “device paradigm” in his Technology and the Character of...

“…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”...