Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
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"A constant repositioning of what life could be—and the form it might take—is a feature in astrobiological discourse."
From our Summer 2011 issue, read Stefan Helmreich's "What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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"An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought . . . stands as a contribution to the field in its own right."
New in review, Karl Baldacchino on Tim Christiaens, Joost de Bloois, and Stijn De Cauwer's An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
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"The promise of instruments to register a reality that could not otherwise be known was central to the enterprise of psychic research in this period."
From our Summer 2016 issue, read Jeremy Stolow's "Mediumnic Lights, Xx Rays, and the Spirit Who Photographed Herself":
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"Alloa has gathered arrows launched into the future by other thinkers and artists, but he has also trimmed his own to let loose into the future of the humanities itself."
New in review, Jae Emerling on Emmanuel Alloa's The Share of Perspective: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
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What is the future of translation? This article from Critical Inquiry explores how human translators can harness the power of the machine: ow.ly/qn0A50Z5KJU @CriticalInquiry
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"Everything that there is to know about an imaginary person is available in the literary corpus that produces and sustains the imaginary person."
From our Autumn 2007 issue, read Candace Vogler's "The Moral of the Story": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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"How can one conceive of an image regime (an 'iconomy,' as Szendy has it), that not only decenters the human but is truly autonomous?"
New in review, Kyle Sossamon on Peter Szendy's For an Ecology of Images, translated by Marco Roth: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
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"For a photograph to be truly antitheatrical for Barthes it must somehow carry within it a kind of ontological guarantee that it was not intended to be so by the photographer."
From our Spring 2005 issue, read Michael Fried's "Barthes’s Punctum": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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"Another Humanity is remarkable for its sustained passages of close reading, where Davis thinks with and against the critical theorists to envision decolonial approaches to humanism."
New in review, Santasil Mallik on Benjamin P. Davis's Another Humanity: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
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"What kinds of new soundscapes are created by acoustic technologies and how are they listened to, explored, and made sense of by scientists through the mediation of technology?"
From our Winter 2009 issue, read Sophia Roosth's "Screaming Yeast": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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Uncovering hidden links between botface (humans performing as machines) and blackface, this article from Critical Inquiry theorizes the two as similarly metatheatrical practices in the realm of the infrahuman. ow.ly/NpBU50YH4M7. @CriticalInquiry
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"Alaimo’s exempla stretch across a fascinatingly heterogeneous array of genres, from photography and film to gallery and website exhibits to memoir, journalism, speculative fiction and much more."
Lawrence Buell on Stacy Alaimo's The Abyss Stares Back: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
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"Tobacco in 1604 embodies the interpretive response that Othello continues to elicit."
From our Autumn 2003 issue, read Dennis Kezar's "Shakespeare’s Addictions": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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"The voice of an orator, or documentarian, enlists and reveals desires, lacks, and longings."
From our Autumn 2008 issue, read Bill Nichols's "Documentary Reenactment and the Fantasmatic Subject": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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"For Lee, parascience is not just a cultural curiosity but a Foucauldian counter-discourse that 'produces new types of knowledge.'"
New in review, Wolfgang Boehm on Derek Lee's Parascientific Revolutions: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
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