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Tony Crowley
It’ll be quiet in town now; unnaturally quiet – as when you catch it at that early hour when the few people about are either straggling home from clubs or turning in for the first shift at work. But there are no clubgoers now, only our ‘key workers’ whose social status stands in inverse proportion […]
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Vera Camden
When Freud first glimpsed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor in 1909, he remarked to Jung, ‘They don’t realize we’re bringing them the plague.’ Freud felt certain the Americans would reject his theories. The double irony in his statement, however, is that though Americans at the turn of the century would resist his […]
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Ignacio M. Sänchez Prado
Mexico City is no stranger to the Apocalypse. Carlos Monsiváis, one of its famous chroniclers, often used the term to depict the experience of living in this most surreal of world capitals. In the 1990s, Monsiváis coined the term “post-apocalyptic” to account for life in the megalopolis that emerged after decades of booming and chaotic […]
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Rajini Srikanth, Min Hyoung Song
One of the most salient ways in which people of Asian ancestry in the United States (as in many other places) have been racialized is being perceived as foreigners. They’ve just always stood out as being from somewhere else, and not really fitting into the societies they may have lived their whole lives in. And […]
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Colleen Lye, Chris Nealon
Thinking with Marx breeds shared projects. Over the last year and a half we have been co-editing a collection of essays on 21st-century Marxist literary criticism, and this winter, in order to prepare to write the introduction to that book, we set out to tandem- teach undergraduate courses on the first volume of Capital at […]
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Lisa Vargo
Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel about a mysterious pandemic that obliterates human beings attracted attention during the advent of AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s; once again The Last Man has a sad currency. Her reflection in her ‘Journal of Sorrow’, ‘The last man! Yes, I may well describe that solitary being’s feelings, feeling myself as […]
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Ato Quayson
When I was about eleven years old and growing up in Accra my father’s cousin, with whom he was very close, lost his wife to a terrible car accident. Uncle Alfred (his name) was inconsolable. A couple of days after the news, my father gathered us together to tell us that there was a tradition in […]
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Santanu Das
In The Age of Anxiety (1947), begun during the Second World War, W.H. Auden observed that ‘in times of crisis, display of even the crudest kind of affection between people can be profoundly ennobling, a symbol of the love the world is so desperately in need of.[1] Indeed, in the trenches of the First World […]
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Tony Crowley
It’ll be quiet in town now; unnaturally quiet – as when you catch it at that early hour when the few people about are either straggling home from clubs or turning in for the first shift at work. But there are no clubgoers now, only our ‘key workers’ whose social status stands in inverse proportion […]
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Vera Camden
When Freud first glimpsed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor in 1909, he remarked to Jung, ‘They don’t realize we’re bringing them the plague.’ Freud felt certain the Americans would reject his theories. The double irony in his statement, however, is that though Americans at the turn of the century would resist his […]
Read More
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Ignacio M. Sänchez Prado
Mexico City is no stranger to the Apocalypse. Carlos Monsiváis, one of its famous chroniclers, often used the term to depict the experience of living in this most surreal of world capitals. In the 1990s, Monsiváis coined the term “post-apocalyptic” to account for life in the megalopolis that emerged after decades of booming and chaotic […]
Read More
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Rajini Srikanth, Min Hyoung Song
One of the most salient ways in which people of Asian ancestry in the United States (as in many other places) have been racialized is being perceived as foreigners. They’ve just always stood out as being from somewhere else, and not really fitting into the societies they may have lived their whole lives in. And […]
Read More
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Colleen Lye, Chris Nealon
Thinking with Marx breeds shared projects. Over the last year and a half we have been co-editing a collection of essays on 21st-century Marxist literary criticism, and this winter, in order to prepare to write the introduction to that book, we set out to tandem- teach undergraduate courses on the first volume of Capital at […]
Read More
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Lisa Vargo
Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel about a mysterious pandemic that obliterates human beings attracted attention during the advent of AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s; once again The Last Man has a sad currency. Her reflection in her ‘Journal of Sorrow’, ‘The last man! Yes, I may well describe that solitary being’s feelings, feeling myself as […]
Read More
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Ato Quayson
When I was about eleven years old and growing up in Accra my father’s cousin, with whom he was very close, lost his wife to a terrible car accident. Uncle Alfred (his name) was inconsolable. A couple of days after the news, my father gathered us together to tell us that there was a tradition in […]
Read More
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Santanu Das
In The Age of Anxiety (1947), begun during the Second World War, W.H. Auden observed that ‘in times of crisis, display of even the crudest kind of affection between people can be profoundly ennobling, a symbol of the love the world is so desperately in need of.[1] Indeed, in the trenches of the First World […]
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