In this new incarnation of the Great American non-novel, universality is not the point. The point is breaking the sheen of misperceptions and appearances.
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It is difficult to recognize violence, poet and dramatist Bert Brecht wrote in the middle of the 20th century. Not when it hits you with a knife or bullet – ...
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
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Ideology is, once again, en vogue, and in a Europe in crisis, that can hardly surprise.
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…it is social organization and Western philosophy that put a straitjacket on reality by making it dance to preconceived notions of how the world is, and should, be structured.
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These are times of a politics of the either/or. Either you’re with Donald Trump, glossing over 21st-century realities in favour of certainty, or you’re a “professional agitator” to be blamed ...
When I tell people I am a researcher in contemporary literature, the response often conveys a certain bemused confusion. What do professionals in the humanities actually do? And more importantly, ...
What does the feeling of “being present” in a digitized world actually mean for our position in time and space?
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