Introduction Universities are said to be places of critical discussion and evaluation that train new cognitive explorers, make better maps, and also create new territories for exploration. We are all…
Do the Humanities have a future? Is there a place for the study of literature, of art, of language and of philosophy in a world progressively dominated by an economic…
Thirty-nine years ago, Penguin Books published Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a scandalous book for its time, and, as it turns out, one unusually important to the history of cultural studies’ institutionalization.…
Introduction What is surprising about the current attack on education, especially in light of the growing corporatization and privatization at all levels of schooling, is the refusal on the part…
Academics in the humanities spend a high percentage of their time reading. The obvious results of this potentially messy habit are walls overrun by bookcases and desks buried in paper,…
Ruins jutting into the sky can appear doubly beautiful on clear days when, in their windows or above their contours, the gaze meets passing clouds. Through the transient spectacle it…
The story ought to be simple enough, and it would seem that sufficient time has passed for those involved to get their stories straight. But some of the strands of…
This is a frontier. Here and now, here we are crossing it now, something is ending and something else is beginning. And like all beginnings, it's a moment of risk…
'Stay! Speak, speak. I charge thee, speak'. That is what Horatio says to the ghost of Hamlet's father in the opening scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Confronted with the thirty-three terrifying…
Q: Monsieur Derrida, you have always been politically engaged in current affairs as a philosopher, for instance in the debate around the New Right or in the International Writers Parliament.…