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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 pedestal. Inside its smooth casing are a microphone, a speaker, and an eye-like lens. After I set it up on…

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Literary criticism Books blog The new vogue in literary theory is shot through with earlier ideas First published on Fri 17 Jun 2011 13.51 BST Shares 302 302 Haunting presence ... Jacques Derrida, who coined the term hauntology, in a still from the documentary Derrida Hauntology is probably the…

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JD Lasica Cambridge Analytica & Facebook Facebook will (soon) yank third-party ad data in the name of privacy Tim Cook says Apple’s customers are not its product, unlike Facebook What lies beneath: The things Facebook knows go beyond user data Facebook accused of massive fraud in new lawsuit filed…

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 had to Joyce’s most notorious work, but what about your everyday bookworm? Turns out, regular readers…

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…

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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…

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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 Fitzgerald, for submitted work that was described as “truly exceptional” by the external examiner,…

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 by the members of the Oulipo. The Paris-based literary collective explores how literature might…

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 universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that…

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 country's influence in practically any other area. That's because 16 years ago, Portugal took a…

Getty Images 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 different. He’s not a linguist. He doesn’t deal in the AI techniques that typically reach…

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Robert Maniscalco Dylann Roof (second from left) during the initial stage of jury selection for his trial for the murder of nine worshipers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina, September 2016 In early January, three weeks into the federal trial of Dylann…

Our new issue, “ Rank and File ,” is out now. To celebrate its release, new subscriptions are discounted. W e should just come out and say it — Donald Trump has a thing for Eastern European women. I remember Trump’s first wife Ivana well — Polish magazines praised her, and thousands of…

An armed guard stands at the entrance of the Survival Condo Project, a former missile silo north of Wichita, Kansas, that has been converted into luxury apartments for people worried about the crackup of civilization. Credit Photograph by Dan Winters for The New Yorker Steve Huffman, the…

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Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has revived the idea of a union of Southern European countries, a proposal first launched by another philosopher, Alexandre Kojève, just after World War II. This "Latin Empire" could act as a counter weight to the dominant role played by Germany in the European…

Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in October, 2016.Photograph: Getty Images B elow the medieval citadel in Kazan, two vast frozen rivers turn the landscape white. On a Saturday afternoon there are a few hardy locals shuffling through the icy sludge to take selfies against the mosque, the…

From above, each city has its own distinct character: something beyond the sum of its parts, a unique fingerprint of streets and houses that makes it quintessentially itself. Even if you didn't know the landmarks, you'd be unlikely to mistake a satellite image of, say, Milan, for one of New York or…

Maybe you’ve been to an art opening, or an art fair. You’re clutching a flute of lukewarm champagne (could be cava), you’re staring at this thing . People are not just saying they love it, they’re saying why they love it, how they love it. Everyone works in a gallery (who knew there were that…

Donald Trump owed his election victory to his popularity in rust-belt areas, such as Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania.Photograph: Mark Makela/Getty Images I have no tribe. I have no comfort blanket, no default button that enables me to join the prevailing hysteria and cry in unison, “Of course, it’s…

A scene from “High Anxiety” (1977), with Mel Brooks and Madeline Kahn. 20th Century Fox AMERICA THE ANXIOUS How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks By Ruth Whippman 247 pp. St. Martin’s Press. $25.99. The first day I arrived in Paris for my semester abroad I smiled at all…

The Holy Southern Empire: a proposal for Southern European anarcho-papism Written by Federico Campagna, 16.09.2013 Cura hominum potuit tantam componere Romam, quantam non potuit solvere cura deum. Hildebertus, Carmina Minora , no.36 Beyond the Latin Empire A few months ago, the Italian philosopher…

Catholicism As Radical Atheism Written by Federico Campagna, 24.03.2014 Steering clear of absolutist atheism My radically atheist attack against normative abstractions, however, was for the great part dissimilar from traditional atheism. While traditional atheism locates its critique on an…

IN MID-OCTOBER, the Nobel Committee for Literature awarded the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan, “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” The announcement came shortly after the most recent Annual Arts Basic Survey (AABS) by the National Endowment for the Arts…

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By the time last week’s presidential election was finally called for Donald Trump during the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the initial disbelief felt by the millions of Americans who had been assured of a Clinton victory by the media had turned into shock and panic — if not yet full-blown despair.…

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