André Gide made his life the very core of his art. In that way he was quite different from Oscar Wilde, who was 15 years his senior and, for a brief but crucial period, a friend. Wilde may have said h
Have editors ever known so much about their readers? And known, in particular, how little and how badly they read? Today even the Weekly Standard and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas announce up front ho
In the mid-1950s, French theorist Jacques Lacan had the prescience to proclaim that the calculating machine is “far more dangerous for man than the atom bomb.” (Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques L
How can cultural workers respond to climate change? Can the cultural work of responding to climate change be a global conversation? In his latest addition to his General Intellects collection of criti
More than 1,300 writers including Kerry Hudson, David Nicholls , Sally Rooney, Michael Rosen and Val McDermid have backed a campaign for Waterstones booksellers to be paid the living wage. The support
The assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia drew the attention of both the local and international media. Most reporters connected the murder to her work, though they highlighted di
By the 1830’s, the ‘proud and overbearing Maltese’ of the first decade of British rule had turned into a submissive people who cringed before their colonial overlords and had internalized, even at a b
It was through their ‘tolerance’ of Carnival and other Catholic rituals, that the British aimed to freeze the flow of time in order to actively prevent social change from taking place in Malta. by Dav
Accelerationism pushes towards a future that is more modern, an alternative modernity that neoliberalism is inherently unable to generate. 01. INTRODUCTION: On the Conjuncture 1&period
The message of many things in America is “Like this or die.” — George W.S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context , 1980 The Seeing Robot The camera is a small, white, curvilinear monolith on a pedest
Hauntology is probably the first major trend in critical theory to have flourished online. In October 2006, Mark Fisher - aka k-punk - described it as "the closest thing we have to a movement, a zeitg
Science and Technology Environment Our new issue, “After Bernie,” is out now. Our questions are simple: what did Bernie accomplish, why did he fail, what is his legacy, and how should we continue the
Ne produis rien. Change de sexe. Deviens le maître de ton professeur. Sois l’élève de ton étudiant. Sois l’amant de ton chef. Sois l’animal de ton chien. Tout ce qui marche sur deux pattes est un enne
JD Lasica Cambridge Analytica & Facebook Facebook may face multi-billion dollar fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal In nearly 500 pages of answers, Facebook stonewalls some senators’ questions Cambri
Today is the publication anniversary of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses ; it is also Joyce’s birthday. Elsewhere on Literary Hub, I took a look at the very different responses other famous writers have ha
On the suggestion of my primary supervisor, I have been taking a look at Jacques Lacan and Lacanian theory as it pertains to critical theory and literary criticism. To someone outside my academic field, this might seem slightly odd, but once you start to read into the subject, it begins to make a…
This summer, I seriously considered withdrawing from any involvement in politics. Exhausted through overwork, incapable of productive activity, I found myself drifting through social networks, feeling my depression and exhaustion increasing. ‘Left-wing’ Twitter can often be a miserable, dispiriting…
The Verso Prize for Cultural and Critical Studies is a new prize for the top student graduating from Birkbeck’s MA Cultural and Critical Studies . The inaugural prize has been awarded to student Neil
December 2013 Image: Killoffer , "La Manif," 2009, Graphite on Paper48 x 63 cm, Courtesy of Galerie Anne Barrault This month we're showcasing the sparkling innovations in form and literature produced
A digital library would make knowledge, culture and literary achievement available to anyone with internet access. Photograph: Getty Images/Getty Images/Dex Image S cholars have long dreamed of a univ
As diplomats gather at the United Nations in New York this week to consider the future of global drug policy, one Portuguese official, João Goulão, will likely command attention that far outstrips his
Igor Mordatch is working to build machines that can carry on a conversation. That's something so many people are working on. In Silicon Valley, chatbot is now a bona fide buzzword . But Mordatch is di
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