https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in symploke. daily 1 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 5 (1997) through current issue Latest Articles: symploke TWO Project MUSE® symploke 1534-0627 1069-0697 Latest articles in symploke. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989258 <p></p> The topic of this issue is one of the major buzzwords of contemporary political and organizational discourse: Transparency. It is carefully curated by five scholars from Belgium and the Netherlands: Jeremy Hamers, Ingrid Mayeur, Fran&#xE7;ois Provenzano, Elise Sch&#xFC;rgers, from the University of Li&#xE8;ge; and Jan Teurlings, from the University of Amsterdam. For them, transparency is at heart an aesthetics of the becoming-visible, which is at once an injunction to communicate as well as a moral imperative. It posits itself as the necessary but also sufficient condition of a number of mediatic and political virtues that are ardently pursued but rarely questioned.As constituted by our co-editors, this issue explores the notion ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Editor's Note 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Editor's Note 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 9311 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989259 <p></p> Most of the essays collected in this focus come out of a three-day seminar series held at the University of Amsterdam in May 2022, with the title &#x22;Truth, Transparency, and Controversy: Critical Perspectives on Media Ideologies.&#x22; During these three days a limited group discussed the role transparency plays in settling controversies and establishing truth. In public discourse these relationships are straightforward and unambiguous: wherever there are controversies they can be settled by truth, and transparency is one particular way of establishing truth. Most of the participants in the seminar took issue with this logic, or at least complicated the relationship between those three terms. They did so by analyzing a ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Transparency: An Introduction 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Transparency: An Introduction 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 73313 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989260 <p></p> In recent time, the black-boxed layers of recommendation algorithms and generative AI have added weight to recurring calls for more transparency. They resume older misgivings on how the complexity and inaccessibility of science and technology challenge democratic participation and public reasoning (see, for instance, Ellul 1964; Lippmann 1997; Irwin and Wynne 1996). Beyond such technology-related questions, transparency is also cherished as a regulatory ideal: At least since the 1960s, it seems an undeniable element for democratic and participatory decision taking and liberal market economies (Schudson 2015). Often it holds the promise to mitigate social polarization that is at least partially explained by the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Contested Transparency: Media Escalation and Sports' Spaces of Visibility 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Contested Transparency: Media Escalation and Sports' Spaces of Visibility 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 109460 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989261 <p></p> The prime purpose of the mass media complex is to produce people in audiences who work at learning the theory and practice of consumership for civilian goods and who support (with taxes and votes) the military demand management system.Since Dallas Smythe launched, now almost 50 years ago, what came to be known as the audience commodity debate, it has become a truism of critical political economy that media produce audiences. Whereas much of the ensuing debate focused on the second part of the epigraph (Is the audience a commodity? Does it perform work while watching? What is the nature of that work and what is its role in the capitalist system?), the deceptively simple proposition that media create audiences ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Platform Transparency as Ways of Knowing the Audience: Data Analytics on YouTube 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Platform Transparency as Ways of Knowing the Audience: Data Analytics on YouTube 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 79280 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989262 <p></p> This article inquires into the evolution of platform transparency practices and discourses both as internal responses and as part of an ongoing social debate on the role and power of platform companies. From 2010&#x2014;the year Google started publishing its transparency reports&#x2014;platform transparency discourses and initiatives have undergone significant shifts, as practices mirror changes in the corporate strategy and sociopolitical context. In that process, platform transparency activities fluctuate between, on the one hand, values of openness and disclosure in social and political settings, and, on the other hand, strategic sets of practices enacting tensions of conflicting strategic goals in communicational and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Emergence of an Apparatus of Transparency in Online Platforms (2010–2023) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Emergence of an Apparatus of Transparency in Online Platforms (2010–2023) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 131715 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989263 <p></p> If a lie had no more faces but one, as truth had, we should be in farre better termes than we are: For whatsoever a lier should say, we would take it in a contrarie sense. But the opposite of truth has many shapes, and an undefinite field.During the last couple of decades, transparency has become a prevailing political ideal. As several studies have shown (see, e.g., Koivisto 2022), transparency is now both a normative concept and a criterium of legitimacy for governments or other political structures. It can therefore be included in various power strategies. Although this surge of desire for transparency at the heart of power is recent, very early on, the concept was linked to political debate. We know that &#x22;the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Truth Behind the Mask: Unveiling King Henry III and False Catholics Through Polemic Printed Texts (France, 1589) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Truth Behind the Mask: Unveiling King Henry III and False Catholics Through Polemic Printed Texts (France, 1589) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 86685 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989264 <p></p> The Beatles&#39; classic psychedelic rock song &#x22;Glass Onion&#x22; (1968) is addressed to its listeners. It broadly hints that they will gain knowledge of, among other things, new psychic vistas &#x22;where everything flows&#x22; and sociopolitical insight into &#x22;how the other half lives.&#x22; But mostly, as a song composed of allusions to other Beatles songs, including &#x22;Strawberry Fields Forever,&#x22; &#x22;I am The Walrus,&#x22; &#x22;Lady Madonna,&#x22; &#x22;Fool on the Hill,&#x22; and &#x22;Fixing a Hole,&#x22; it promises insight into the Beatles oeuvre itself. The fact that it doesn&#39;t really deliver much in this respect then serves as composer John Lennon&#39;s playful criticism of Beatles fans&#39; obsessive over-interpretation of even his most throw-away lyrics. In particular ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Looking through a Glass Onion: Transparency and Digital Media in the COVID Era 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Looking through a Glass Onion: Transparency and Digital Media in the COVID Era 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 92289 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989265 <p></p> On first examination, there is little that connects the novels Open City and The Other Name: the former details the physical and intellectual wanderings of a young Nigerian-German immigrant in New York City; the latter details two days in the life of a secluded and aging artist in Norway. However, the ends of both works reveal a common thread, as these novels are ultimately explorations of sexual violence and its aftermath. The protagonist of Open City, Julius, is revealed to have committed a sexual assault in his adolescence, where the protagonist of The Other Name, Asle, is revealed to be himself the victim of childhood sexual abuse. In the wake of these traumas, both narratives are defined by temporal ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Figure of the Mad: Transparency in Cole's Open City and Fosse's The Other Name 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Figure of the Mad: Transparency in Cole's Open City and Fosse's The Other Name 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 51221 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989266 <p></p> In my recently published book The Aesthetics of Stealth: Digital Culture, Video Games and the Politics of Perception (2024), I develop a cultural theory of stealth through an engagement with contemporary media art, especially video games and television series.1 In these media, stealth appears as a mode of political action under the threshold of perception. Stealth aspires to imperceptible efficacy. I argue that this desire for stealth is a characteristic of recent digital culture and can be understood as a sociocultural response to ubiquitous digital sensing and surveillance. Digital technologies&#39; unprecedented ability to track individual and group behavior is thus counter-effectuated by an increased cultural ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Aesthetics of Stealth: Imperceptibility as Aesthetic Practice and Rhetoric Strategy 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Aesthetics of Stealth: Imperceptibility as Aesthetic Practice and Rhetoric Strategy 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 43603 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989267 <p></p> Why should we be interested in sports betting, and what does it have to do with transparency? A few months ago, I began betting on soccer games. When my partner and some friends learned about this, they reacted with surprise, fear and disapproval. How could a family man, a respected scholar in Humanities, who advocates for rhetorical tools and, more generally, for critical thinking, engage in an activity so marked by irrationality and superstition? Not to mention, of course, an activity also marred by the economic exploitation model that underpins it.However, I found that betting presents an opposite (and perhaps complementary) paradigm to the one of transparency. My initial leading hypothesis was that betting ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Below Transparency: What Betting Can Teach Us About Rationality 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Below Transparency: What Betting Can Teach Us About Rationality 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 72054 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989269 <p></p> This is an essay about the Gramsci we learn to read with the help of Proust. It begins by thinking about Antonio Gramsci&#39;s political ambition in the early years to unite Italy, a project that finds an analogue in Gramsci&#39;s relations with the Schucht sisters, Giulia (1896&#x2013;1980) and Eugenia (1889&#x2013;1972). In his early love letters to the Schuchts, Gramsci develops an implicit parallel between his personal emotions and the political realities of Italy. His desire to predict the Italian near future, an objective project in Marxian terms, is frustrated just as his efforts are to understand and form a union with the Schuchts. The essay turns to Proust&#39;s analysis of attachment in Remembrance of Things Past to suggest how ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Gramsci after Proust: Futurity and Transformation in the Early Letters 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Gramsci after Proust: Futurity and Transformation in the Early Letters 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 78340 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989270 <p></p> We live in an age of increased disasters and encroaching fascism. This is a historical moment marked by an emerging authoritarianism&#39;s systemic attempt to disable language and dissent of any substantive meaning, remove actions from the grammar of moral witnessing, and disassociate power from institutional justice. As all levels of society are hollowed out, notions of democratic community, the social contract, historical consciousness, and compassion give way to a politics in which all matters of responsibility are individualized, privatized, and removed from broader systemic considerations.1 The habits of oligarchy are animated by fear and reproduced through relentless attacks on human possibilities, while &#x22;the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Student Protests, Gaza, and the New McCarthyism 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Student Protests, Gaza, and the New McCarthyism 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 115886 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989271 <p></p> One begins to feel that one is not made to live alone.Jacques Derrida was uncharacteristically straightforward in his rejection of community: &#x22;I don&#39;t much like the word community,&#x22; he once remarked, adding: &#x22;I am not even sure I like the thing&#x22; (1995, 355). In a notebook entry from 1976, his aversion was even stronger: &#x22;In &#39;flight from alliance&#39; and disgust with &#39;community.&#39; This very word [&#39;community&#39;] makes me sick&#x22; (Peeters, 291&#x2013;92). How might we situate the antisocial tendency in Derrida&#39;s thought, which intensifies and formally consolidates as his work develops, with the result of warding off practically any approach to the common? In what ways might Derrida&#39;s suspicion of community emblematize certain ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Syncopations of Singularity: Between Derrida and Nancy 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Syncopations of Singularity: Between Derrida and Nancy 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 120396 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989272 <p></p> When teaching at LSU in the late 1980s, Edouard Glissant (1928&#x2013;2011) visited Rowan Oak, William Faulkner&#39;s home in Oxford, Mississippi. The trip and Glissant&#39;s thoughts on Faulkner on many fronts were recorded in his engaging book, Faulkner, Mississippi (1996). Having just arrived in the US for less than two weeks, Glissant penned his new pleasure, new mysteries, and new efforts: For us, the United States&#x2014;what you call &#x22;America&#x22; when you dream of coming here&#x2014;was a vast body of shadows and mysteries. Eating omelets and hash browns at Louie&#39;s Caf&#xE9; (fried up on the hot griddle with a hint of cayenne so pleasing to our West Indian palates) was a new pleasure. &#x2026; When you come to the United States you watch television ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Shen Congwen, Faulkner, and a Hong Kong Story 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Shen Congwen, Faulkner, and a Hong Kong Story 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 55268 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989273 <p></p> Day in the Life (2020) is a video work in five parts by the Indigenous and self-organized media group Karrabing Film Collective. In the words of the Karrabing members themselves, the piece &#x22;charts an ordinary day in a small rural Indigenous community in which nothing quite works and the authoritative hand of the government is a always constant, shadowy presence over the community&#x22; (Karrabing Film Collective 2023, n.p.). Its segments are titled after (stereo)typical moments of the day; &#x22;breakfast,&#x22; &#x22;play break,&#x22; &#x22;lunch run,&#x22; &#x22;cocktail hour,&#x22; and &#x22;takeout dinner,&#x22; respectively. As Matariki Williams has pointed out, the work is not just about the quotidian, but more specifically about &#x22;the ways in which the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall In Visibility: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Seeing Infrastructure 2026-05-07 text/html en-US In Visibility: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Seeing Infrastructure 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 55641 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989274 <p></p> Peter Sloterdijk&#39;s monumental philosophical project Spheres stands as an attempt to understand the forces of modernization from the perspective of the construction of livable spaces that ground the self in symbiotic exchanges with the atmospherics of environment and semi-permeable places that both admit and push back against otherness. As commentators have observed with reference to his emphasis on spatial poetics, Sloterdijk is concerned with mapping the temporal transition from grounded sites of Heideggerian dwelling, where human beings overcome the loss of prenatal spherical security by constructing inhabitable environments that humanize spatial and atmospheric coordinates via the home and the nation, toward the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Pressure of Poetic Form: Global Image and the Limits of Synchronicity in Peter Sloterdijk's and A. R. Ammons's "Spheres" 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Pressure of Poetic Form: Global Image and the Limits of Synchronicity in Peter Sloterdijk's and A. R. Ammons's "Spheres" 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 66829 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989275 <p></p> The confession of the narrator in The Sympathizer (2015) is told in an ingenious way that reads like a sequence of nested stories. The writer disproves the notion of biased recollections of combat through this technique. The narrator integrates the viewpoints of multiple individuals he encounters encompassing Vietnamese and Americans on opposing sides of the war. The variety of voices combined creates a rich tapestry of experiences that reflects the complexities of war and the notion that there is no one single truth. This work&#39;s integration of multiple points of view highlights the importance of acknowledging the complexities of conflict and serves as a reminder of the value of diverse viewpoints. It also ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Memories of War: A Critical Examination of Historical Revisionism in The Sympathizer 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Memories of War: A Critical Examination of Historical Revisionism in The Sympathizer 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 63236 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989276 <p></p> The author is dead, the name on the cover is a function, and reading for intention is a fallacy. These tenets are useful but inadequate. If the author is dead, then who is that taking a selfie at their book signing? Why does it matter whether a book was written by a minoritized person? Why does affective attachment to certain writers define the careers of academics? And why does reading stylized prose still feel like an encounter with another mind? In the &#39;80s, feminist critics pushed back against Roland Barthes, defending recent gains vested in women authorship. A scattering of other rebuttals culminated in Sean Burke&#39;s The Death and Return of the Author in 1992. More recently, pro-author scholarship has ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Form's Potential Face: Rethinking Authorship and Textual Agency 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Form's Potential Face: Rethinking Authorship and Textual Agency 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 62540 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989277 <p></p> Werner Hamacher projected a magisterial and even, on the margin, intimidating presence.By the tumultuous year of 1968, not yet twenty, he had established himself as the enfant terrible of the Seminar f&#xFC;r allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Department of General and Comparative Literature) at the Free University, Berlin, where he had gravitated from his native Wiesbaden. This milieu was to attain just notoriety for the radicality of its theoretical environment and the meticulousness of the exegesis that was fostered there. Also, for a cavalcade of illustrious alumni. Among them, Hans-Thies Lehmann, the eminent scholar and dramaturge of theater. Also, the authoritative critical theorist, Rodolphe ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Department Down the Hallway: Werner Hamacher in the Cybernetic Age 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Department Down the Hallway: Werner Hamacher in the Cybernetic Age 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 95640 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989278 <p></p> This symposium invites us to reflect on Fredric Jameson, whose extraordinary career produced major publications extending over seven decades, from 1961 to his death in 2024, with more certain to appear posthumously. Since at least the mid-1970s Jameson was regularly honored, and, it seems to me thereby dismissed, as &#x22;America&#39;s leading Marxist critic.&#x22; He was so much more than that. He transcended the United States, as one of the few American cultural thinkers whose work resonated across the world, most famously in China but also in Brazil (Della Torre). Overviews and memorials have been pouring in, and I have found especially valuable those by Mark Greif in Harpers, Perry Anderson in New Left Review, Bruce Robbins ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Fredric Jameson: Way Back When 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Fredric Jameson: Way Back When 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 23070 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989279 <p></p> I remember first hearing whispers about this thing called literary theory during my undergraduate years in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While I dutifully bought a copy of Derrida&#39;s Of Grammatology (1974) and tried, haltingly, to make heads or tails of it, it was mostly through cryptically uttered words, short maxims, and the hagiographic invocations of proper names that I learned about this strange, seemingly new intellectual phenomenon. Indeed, I knew theory was against essentialism, for deconstruction, and for constructivism long before I had read more than a few pages of Derrida, Foucault, or Said. Of course, this was a poor reduction of the complexity and immensity of the projects of various theorists, some ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Jameson the Bricoleur? Or the Strange Systematicity of the Dialectic 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Jameson the Bricoleur? Or the Strange Systematicity of the Dialectic 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 34939 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989280 <p></p> I was already a professor at the University of S&#xE3;o Paulo when, in 1992, I was awarded a post-doctoral Fulbright scholarship to carry out research in the United States. I chose to go to Duke because of Fred, who was for me, then, Professor Fredric Jameson.I had only read two of his books, Marxism and Form (1971) and The Political Unconscious (1981)&#x2014;those were pre-internet days and it took ages for a book to travel to Brazil. Marxism and Form had been translated into Portuguese by two colleagues at the University of S&#xE3;o Paulo, as part of the intellectual project of continuing to spread the dialectical tradition in the Brazilian debate. I came across The Political Unconscious in a bookshop in England, where I was ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Criticism: A Political Issue 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Criticism: A Political Issue 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 28315 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989281 <p></p> &#x22;I believe that theory is to be grasped as the perpetual and impossible attempt to de-reify the language of thought,&#x22; writes Fredric Jameson, &#x22;and to preempt all the systems and ideologies which inevitably result from the establishment of this or that fixed terminology&#x22; (2009, 9). This notion of theory as &#x22;perpetual&#x22; and &#x22;impossible,&#x22; or, if you will, perpetually impossible and impossibly perpetual, has become for some the key point of distinction of theory, particularly those who have adopted Jameson&#39;s brand of theory. But it is also a notion of theory that as soon as it is stated must be de-reified lest it risk becoming a mere instantiation of the reified thought that Jameson so abhors. In other words, this ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Perpetual Impossibility of Theory: A Comment on Jameson's Legacy 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Perpetual Impossibility of Theory: A Comment on Jameson's Legacy 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 34570 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989282 <p></p> In the period I came to maturity as a literary academic, nobody had greater presence and sway than did Fredric Jameson and Edward Said. To say that is already to probe the field&#39;s intellectual constitution at that time because Jameson and Said&#39;s agendas were in many ways opposed to each other. At best, they supplemented rather than complemented one another. My own academic career was accelerated when, in 1983, I published a Saidean critique of Jameson, in which, I believe, the word &#x22;postcolonial&#x22; was first used in its current sense. Essentially &#x22;Postmodernism or Postcolonialism&#x22; (1983) asked the question: what &#x22;we&#x22; was Jameson talking about when he made his famous argument that we now inhabit the postmodern? Maori ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Fredric Jameson's Metaphysics of History 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Fredric Jameson's Metaphysics of History 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 31761 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989283 <p></p> Months later, it is still easier to imagine the end of the world than the passing of Fredric Jameson. I make no attempt to summarize either his thought or the depth of its influence on my own thinking, but I would like to register in some modest way the persistence of key elements of his materialist methodology and/or system and the living presence of Marxist intervention in this regard. As events, articles, and books accumulate to mark Jameson&#39;s massive legacy, it seems fitting to theorize further the thinking and cultural logic that accompanies it. The small stylistic acts of Jamesonian emulation, the use of &#x22;as such,&#x22; &#x22;grasp,&#x22; and the occasional Greimas Semiotic Square, are always welcome but then there is the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Impossible Totality 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Impossible Totality 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 23897 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989284 <p></p> The first time I read Fredric Jameson it was in graduate school in the early 1970s. Temple English and Philosophy, thanks to George McFadden, a Dryden scholar, and Monroe C. Beardsley, an aesthetician long associated with later developments of the New Criticism, had inaugurated a reading group in theory, initially only for both departments. We read Fredric Jameson&#39;s Marxism and Form (1971) and The Prison-House of Language (1972). So our group felt like we were on the cutting-edge. We also read during this period &#x22;the structuralist controversy&#x22; (Macksey and Donato, 1970), of course. There was a lot of excitement, intellectually, in the air. As time went on, we opened the reading group up to all departments in the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall On the Möbius Strip of Critical Revisionism with Fredric Jameson 2026-05-07 text/html en-US On the Möbius Strip of Critical Revisionism with Fredric Jameson 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 24337 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989285 <p></p> Already the author of nearly 30 books, Fredric Jameson published two new ones in 2024: Inventions of the Present: The Novel in Its Age of Globalization and The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present, the latter appearing just a few weeks after Jameson&#39;s untimely death on September 22, 2024, thus formally becoming his first posthumous volume. Although these texts were in no way intended to serve as some sort of culmination to Jameson&#39;s career, it is perhaps fitting that a collection of essays on various recent or contemporary novels and the record of a graduate seminar on French theory should be among his final published works. The happenstance seems to underscore the degree to which, across his ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Hearing Our Contemporaries: Jameson's Years of Theory and Criticism 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Hearing Our Contemporaries: Jameson's Years of Theory and Criticism 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 42484 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989287 <p></p> For a long time, as long indeed as critique, one has doubted the philosophical distinction of the original and authentic, although this hardly means erasing the substance of originality or denying any and all possibility of authenticity. In the realm of automation and technological reproduction, efficiency feeds cynicism: can&#39;t a nicely AI-washed copy or facsimile of original inspiration do just as well as the source material? Indubitably, but the oft-repeated retort concerns the ethics of self-presentation&#x2014;that the particular constellation of words and thoughts are those of the self, presenting. The ethical question appears irrefutable&#x2014;thou shalt not represent another&#39;s thoughts or even another&#39;s anodyne ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Right to Copy 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Right to Copy 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 30400 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989288 <p></p> &#x22;In the beginning was the word copy&#x22; we are told in the manifesto-documentary &#x22;Steal This Film&#x22; (2006). One of the arguments put forward in its advocacy for media piracy is that communicating has always been an act of copying. This is how infants learn to speak. Technology only changes how we copy: from spoken word to written forms to recombinant methodologies that mix and repurpose digital content. But copying&#x2014;the film avers&#x2014;is inescapably part of vernacular, people-driven forms of making which continue to exist alongside money-making forms of making culture. A vignette about the impossibilities of fencing in rabbits and prohibiting them from reproducing figures the &#x22;naturalness&#x22; of such phenomena which leak past ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Copy Game 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Copy Game 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 28092 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989289 <p></p> Let us begin to understand the current context of plagiarism by considering one of the more well-known recent cases&#x2014;that of former Harvard University President Claudine Gay, a political scientist who began her tenure as Harvard&#39;s first black president in February of 2023. Gay&#39;s research focused on political behavior, including voter turnout, housing policy, and the politics of race and identity and she achieved the rank of Professor of African American Studies at Harvard in 2007. Beginning in 2015 she would assume various administrative roles that eventually placed her in a position to be considered as Harvard&#39;s next president. Eventually she would become known not only as Harvard&#39;s first black president but also ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Steal This Idea 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Steal This Idea 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 28219 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989290 <p></p> Who owns my language? When I sit down to write, when I speak on the phone, where do these words, which seem to form in my mind, to move my fingers and my tongue, come from? In what sense are they my own? And if they are not mine whose are they? If they are not mine, how can they be stolen?We live in a world of property. Our intellectual &#x22;property&#x22; is monetized by ourselves, by our universities, and by those in the world of big tech and social media who would seek to alienate it from us. This property exists in the first place as our words, as our inscriptions, our equations, our series of scratchings&#x2014;grammata from graphein to scratch or graze&#x2014;a set of incisions, and hence divisions or differences, of ones and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Plagiarism: Who Owns My Language? 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Plagiarism: Who Owns My Language? 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 38246 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989291 <p></p> As I was sliding down the many rabbit holes that the topic of plagiarism in the contemporary academy opens, one particular quote in a May 2024 Harvard Crimson article snagged my attention for the way it casts the contemporary academy as a battlefield in the culture war, and accusations of plagiarism as a choice weapon for the fight. Commenting on the strategic efforts by right-wing activists like Christopher Rufo to discredit Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education by unmasking plagiarists within them, Aaron Sibarium, a staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon, explained to the interviewers that the charge of plagiarism holds appeal as &#x22;a powerful weapon&#x22; because &#x22;plagiarism ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Plagiarism and the Succulence of Detection 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Plagiarism and the Succulence of Detection 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 27808 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989292 <p></p> Lydia Goehr&#39;s Red Sea, Red Square, Red Thread (2021) is forged by the fortunes of an anecdote. But the anecdote&#39;s elements fragment and separate, enabling rearrangements of its meaning. As Goehr inspects those rearrangements, we find to our astonishment that swathes of scholarly storytelling have been encompassed by that very anecdote. Let&#39;s relate it in broad brushstrokes. A painter paints the Israelites crossing the Red Sea pursued by Pharaoh&#39;s army. The person who commissioned the painting only sees a square of red paint on the canvas. Where are the Israelites? They&#39;ve already crossed over, so I didn&#39;t paint them. Pharaoh&#39;s army? Drowned beneath the waves, so I didn&#39;t paint it either. I just painted the Red ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Lydia Goehr's Red Book 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Lydia Goehr's Red Book 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 78969 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989293 <p></p> Histories of modernity typically recount the path from feudalism to capitalism, modern nation-states, and parliamentary democracies. They might also call attention to social and technological innovations such as the popular vote, the railroad and auto, and communicative media. Digging under that story, Imre Szeman has emphasized the centrality of fossil fuels, not as an incidental factor but a necessary cause of modernity. Oil in particular has provided cheap and portable energy that has allowed unprecedented production, infrastructure, mobility, and consumption. It has also played a pivotal role in modern global politics. Indeed, as the introduction to Petrocultures, coedited by Szeman, declares: &#x22;Oil has ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Oil and Culture: An Interview with Imre Szeman 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Oil and Culture: An Interview with Imre Szeman 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 48694 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989294 <p></p> Why does academic freedom matter? Where did it come from? And what exactly does it mean?Since the 1990s, John K. Wilson has served as a watchman of academic freedom, debunking myths of leftwing repression and advocating for robust freedom of speech and inquiry. His first book, The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education (1995), investigates charges of suppression from both the left and the right and finds that many of the charges of PC were grossly distorted or false and that conservatives had used the phrase to augment their power. In Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies (2008), he expanded his account in light of criticisms of academics for being ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Evolution of Academic Freedom: An Interview with John K. Wilson 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Evolution of Academic Freedom: An Interview with John K. Wilson 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 49773 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989295 <p></p> The disease is not depression. The disease is capitalism.If there is a most significant thesis in this book, it is that a prerequisite to living a rich life today is, paradoxically perhaps, a living in one&#39;s bones, that is, experiencing the knowledge that we are killing the earth as human-life-sustaining. Its chapters collectively speak of how one might move a patient (called here &#x22;client,&#x22; an ironic term given its capitalistic implication) toward articulating this knowledge that had theretofore symptomatically remained locked in the Real of the body. And inextricably, the point is emphatically made that, in order to thereby help the patient, the therapist must themself have faced it, transforming a previous ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Climate, Psychology, and Change: Reimagining Psychotherapy in an Era of Global Disruption and Climate Anxiety ed. by Steffi Bednarek (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Climate, Psychology, and Change: Reimagining Psychotherapy in an Era of Global Disruption and Climate Anxiety ed. by Steffi Bednarek (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 9326 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989296 <p></p> This collection of essays takes the opportunity afforded by the 50th anniversary of the publication of Julia Kristeva&#39;s Revolution in Poetic Language (1974) to reexamine that work and to place its achievements and influence, while considering when appropriate other of her writings. The noted Hegel scholar Emilia Angelova has selected articles by philosophers and literary scholars to analyze and expand upon Kristeva&#39;s texts and theory. From a psychoanalytic perspective, these articles together focus on the help Kristeva&#39;s neo-Freudian work provides in dealing with the pressing problems of power in an increasingly autocratic global order. In this context, they are a must-read.The contributors include Kelly Oliver ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Revolution in Poetic Language ed. by Emilia Angelova (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Revolution in Poetic Language ed. by Emilia Angelova (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 15759 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989297 <p></p> Flann O&#39;Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934&#x2013;45: Dublin&#39;s Dadaist (2025) by Tobias W. Harris is the most exciting book to appear this year on the Irish writer Flann O&#39;Brien (pseudonym of Brian O&#39;Nolan [1911&#x2013;66]) and his contemporaries. Part of Bloomsbury&#39;s &#x22;Global Perspectives in Irish Literary Studies&#x22; series, Dublin&#39;s Dadaist challenges existing scholarship by exploring O&#39;Nolan&#39;s connection to European avant-garde movements by reexamining his innovative use of language and form and, significantly, by probing the informing cultural and historical contexts surrounding his literary milieu.This short, seven-chapter study reads brilliantly. Harris&#39;s introduction highlights how O&#39;Nolan&#39;s writings engage modernist ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Flann O'Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin's Dadaist by Tobias W. Harris (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Flann O'Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin's Dadaist by Tobias W. Harris (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 9295 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989298 <p></p> Diasporic communities are always hybrid, inasmuch as their identities are defined by two places at once, an ostensible homeland and their present location elsewhere. The sense of displacement or dual placement can be all the more salient when there are pronounced differences in language and cultures. In Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States (2023), Melody Yunzi Li employs the core concept of the affective map to explore how contemporary Chinese diasporic individuals navigate geopolitical and cultural tensions to reconstruct their identity and sense of belonging. Affective maps, through personal and subjective emotional narratives, liberate immigrants from ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States by Melody Yunzi Li (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States by Melody Yunzi Li (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 11401 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989299 <p></p> In the 21st century, with the rise of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, and other social media platforms, the production of auto/biographical work that is open to the perusal of others (in contrast to the journal or private diary) has expanded enormously. Traditional approaches to studying life narratives that focus primarily on published writings and analyze their textuality are no longer adequate for grasping much of the auto/biographical activity that goes on today. We need new approaches for understanding recently published autobiographical books as well, as they are often influenced by our online environment and social media. Amy Carlson&#39;s Reading Mediated Life Narratives: Auto/Biographical ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Reading Mediated Life Narratives: Auto/Biographical Agency in the Book, Museum, Social Media, and Archives by Amy Carlson (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Reading Mediated Life Narratives: Auto/Biographical Agency in the Book, Museum, Social Media, and Archives by Amy Carlson (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 12770 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989300 <p></p> Rouch&#39;s arc demonstrates that, if in the mid-1940s it was desirable to go on expeditions to discover far-flung tribes, by the early 1960s, the most fascinating&#x2014;and ideologically accessible&#x2014;tribe was found in metropolitan France, and especially in Paris (57).With her first monograph, Laure Astourian, an associate professor of French at Bentley University and currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University, contributes a fresh perspective on French cinema that positions itself at the crossroads between French cultural studies and French film history. Aptly included in Indiana UP&#39;s series New Directions in National Cinemas, this study builds on Kristen Ross&#39;s seminal scholarship (Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema by Laure Astourian (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema by Laure Astourian (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 14131 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989301 <p></p> When Michael Coffey first heard the rumor that the poet Susan Howe is secretly Samuel Beckett&#39;s daughter, it provoked in him something of an obsessive search for clues in the work of both writers. The available evidence does little to quell speculation. Howe&#39;s mother, Mary Manning Howe, was a childhood friend of Beckett&#39;s in Dublin. As Beckett&#39;s biographer James Knowlson reports, it was known that the two were conducting an affair in the summer of 1936 before Mary returned to Boston and her husband. Baby Susan would be born on June 10, 1937, 41 weeks after Mary left Ireland. Coffey reports that he heard from a professor of his, who was there at the time, that Mary returned to Dublin in the 1970s &#x22;to tell all who ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Beckett's Children: A Literary Memoir by Michael Coffey (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Beckett's Children: A Literary Memoir by Michael Coffey (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 9756 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989302 <p></p> Alienation has long been a topic of concern for philosophers, cultural theorists, psychoanalysts, and others. It has drawn attention from social reformers and revolutionaries across a wide variety of persuasions. It is usually presented as a problem: the root of our modern suffering, it is said, is alienation; some kind of authentic (re)discovery of who we are is the only remedy. In Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn&#39;t Try to Find Ourselves (2024), Todd McGowan proposes that this formulation is backward. Modernity did not create alienation, it only made us more acutely aware of it, and far from being the cause of our woes the embrace of alienation is necessary to combat the impossible and violent fantasy of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves by Todd McGowan (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves by Todd McGowan (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 9838 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989303 <p></p> Blue humanities is a relatively recent phenomenon that aims to decenter the Anthropocentric projection of oceanic spaces and other water bodies in favor of viewing oceans &#x22;as subjects in themselves&#x22; (Mentz 2009, 997). The book under review devotes considerable attention in this direction and offers a comprehensive exploration of how ecological thinking can be interwoven with fictions to challenge anthropocentric views and engage readers with the pressing environmental issues of our time. With a thoughtful foreword by Steve Mentz, the book contextualizes blue humanities in the current academic discourse, to reassert the territorial and geopolitical impact oceans have in terms of their negotiations with maritime ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Remapping Energopolitics: Blue Humanities, Geophilosophy and Sri Lankan Minor Writings by Abhisek Ghosal (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Remapping Energopolitics: Blue Humanities, Geophilosophy and Sri Lankan Minor Writings by Abhisek Ghosal (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 11094 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989304 <p></p> In this expansive study, John McGahern: Ways of Looking (2024), John Singleton looks at the generative possibilities of poetic vision in the fiction and drama by one of Ireland&#39;s most accomplished prose stylists, John McGahern (1934&#x2013;2006). A brief introduction lays out the stakes for this project: to examine through close reading the &#x22;wide range of vision that is never at peace&#x22; (6), and to explore the oeuvre&#39;s &#x22;spiritual and &#x2026; transcendent quality&#x22; through its spatial topography (7). Rather than give a precise definition, Singleton argues that the best coordinates for tracking McGahern&#39;s vision arise in the essays collected in Love of the World (2009). Poetic vision informs McGahern&#39;s various ways of looking, and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall John McGahern: Ways of Looking by John Singleton (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US John McGahern: Ways of Looking by John Singleton (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 8735 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989305 <p></p> What to make of intelligence today? The safe word of so many neoliberal fetishes, intelligence franks all kinds of justifications for market abstractions and cruelties. This &#x22;intelligence&#x22; is the mystical arbiter of psychic life in the grand commodity sense, an opaque, Globish term grounding the motivational justifications for endless competition: the unscrupulous trader simply leant on their greater intelligence to beat out the better deal. Quantities of intelligence, thought of like a raw processing power, are simply natural deviations from a functionally self-evident mean.But what if such figures were not only made up, but continually figured and re-figured by what is too easily marginalized as literary ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism by Zakir Paul (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism by Zakir Paul (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 12414 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989306 <p></p> If one were asked to shed light on what situates the oeuvre of Gilles Deleuze within the history of philosophy at large, one of the most direct inroads would be his conception of time. In Robert W. Luzecky and Daniel W. Smith&#39;s recently edited volume, Deleuze and Time (2023), this conception is systematically outlined in a manner that clarifies his insights without glossing over their theoretical difficulties, namely, through its threefold division into &#x22;Concepts of Time,&#x22; &#x22;History of Time,&#x22; and &#x22;Expressions of Time.&#x22; By dividing the volume into thirds, Luzecky and Smith provide a means of understanding particular moments in which Deleuze writes extensively on time by transposing the same passage or concept into ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Deleuze and Time ed. by Robert W. Luzecky and Daniel W. Smith (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Deleuze and Time ed. by Robert W. Luzecky and Daniel W. Smith (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 11494 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989307 <p></p> Early in Reading Baudelaire with Adorno (2023), Joseph Acquisto cites Adorno&#39;s statement from Aesthetic Theory (1970) that &#x22;[a]rt is the ever broken promise of happiness&#x22; (7). But how happy are we with the promise of Adorno&#39;s theory of art? A changing attitude toward Adorno&#39;s relevance for literary and cultural theory lies behind the resurgence in studies of Adorno published in the past decade. The &#x22;often paratactic style in Aesthetic Theory&#x22; has facilitated the &#x22;caricature&#x22; of Adorno as &#x22;an elitist or curmudgeon&#x22; (6) by withholding from newer readers a ready understanding of his thought. Yet that same difficulty in Adorno&#39;s work, in which &#x22;[n]o totalizing blueprint is given&#x22; (7), and its propensity to interrogate ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Reading Baudelaire with Adorno: Dissonance, Subjectivity, Transcendence by Joseph Acquisto (review) 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Reading Baudelaire with Adorno: Dissonance, Subjectivity, Transcendence by Joseph Acquisto (review) 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 10101 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989308 <p></p> In June 2022, the NECS annual conference, organized at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest under the title &#x22;Interfaces and Practices of the Digital Archive,&#x22; was opened by a keynote talk by Georges Didi-Huberman. His lecture was entitled &#x22;Image, Archive, Atlas (On Some Epistemic Practices)&#x22; and focused, in one of its main parts, on his working method and the permanent dialogue it presupposes with the tool of the atlas as it was elaborated by Aby Warburg in Mnemosyne Atlas. After his talk, one of the first to address a question to Didi-Huberman was none other than Lev Manovich, who would serve as the second keynote the next day. Manovich&#39;s question, which he announced as somewhat &#x22;provocative,&#x22; was essentially ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall Beyond the Call for Transparency: YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm Reconsidered 2026-05-07 text/html en-US Beyond the Call for Transparency: YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm Reconsidered 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 66147 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309 <p></p> A student was accused of plagiarism. Though the student admitted that they duplicated the language of a scholar without proper scholarly attribution, they still maintained that they were not claiming credit for the work of the scholar.A professor was accused of plagiarism. Though the professor admitted that they duplicated the language of a scholar without proper scholarly attribution, they still maintained that they were not claiming credit for the work of the scholar.Along with cheating on exams, plagiarism is widely regarded as paradigmatic academic dishonesty. And as long as there have been exams and papers in education, there have been students who have cheated and plagiarized on them. Stories of students ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989309">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/190/image/coversmall We Are All Plagiarists: On the Politics of Academic Dishonesty 2026-05-07 text/html en-US We Are All Plagiarists: On the Politics of Academic Dishonesty 2026-05-07 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 38569 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2026-05-07