Jeremy Meckler writes that the “cinematic iconoclast" Chris Marker “is a filmmaker known both for his achingly personal style of documentary film, yet he remains playfully elusive about his own identity….” Read more in Meckler’s book review in Frame 15! manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
Hunter Hargraves ponders, “In times of unrelenting crisis, how much should we—as professional queers, as scholars of modern culture, as resistant and critical viewing publics—desire the normal?” Read more in Hargraves’ book review of Karen Tongson’s book Normporn: manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
Jason Read writes: “Nesbitt’s book takes up what could be considered the central claim, or question of Lire Le Capital: What does it mean to read Marx’s Capital, not as a critique of political economy, but as a philosophical text?” Learn more in Read’s book review: manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
Frieda Ekotto asks, “What happens to dense political writing when the translator must confront old and tired anxieties of meaning getting lost in translation?” Find out in her review of a new translation of Aimé Césaire’s . . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent at manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
Frame 15 is LIVE on Cultural Critique Online, with new reviews from Frieda Ekotto, Jason Read, Hunter Hargraves, and Jeremy Meckler. Check it out at manifold.umn.edu/projects/cc1...
"Readers in the English-speaking world will have much to gain by engaging with [The Prisoner]—not for the foreign history it recounts but for the incisive perspective it offers on global histories we think we may already know.”—find out why in Daniel Y. Kim’s review: manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
Wilton Schereka writes in summary of Davis's argument: "the danger in this [so-named culture of empathy] is that it disregards the expanse of life experiences, and replaces it instead with a simulacrum of feeling, like a bad cover song..." manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram... more of the book review at
On Gramsci at Sea, “this book is a delight partially due to its unwillingness to deliver on its provocations"—find out why in @peterives.bsky.social's book review at manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
"...The novel is able to do what dialectical thinking can achieve only in the course of a painstaking critical operation: engage with things and concepts...in their true, historical being...” —writes Timothy Bewes in his review of Jameson’s Inventions of a Present at manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
Frame 13 is now LIVE on Cultural Critique Online, with new reviews from Timothy Bewes, @peterives.bsky.social, Wilton Schereka, and Daniel Y. Kim. Check it out at manifold.umn.edu/projects/cc1...
Adhikari urges that "Bangladesh's liberation must be understood through these coalescing circuits, not as the inevitable outcome of territorial contestation but with an attention to encounters across geographies and temporalities." Read more in CC 127! doi.org/10.1353/cul....
Per Oveisy, "any leftist folklore that does not contest the cultures of capital lacks historical and strategic specificity and is prone to mediating any inconsequential or not-so-consequential issue through unexamined strategies." Read more in CC 127 at doi.org/10.1353/cul.... !
Departing from "Derrida's meditations on Japanese political leaders' national apologies," Kim-Kiteishvili "aims to reimagine the ethical and political possibilities of forgiveness as part of, and apart from, the Abrahamic tradition" in CC 127! doi.org/10.1353/cul....
Amidst tumultuous current events, Doganay aims to "exemplify the co-function of the university and hysteric's discourse in the reproduction of Cartesian dichotomies in the here and now but also in the imagined future." Read more in CC 127, live at doi.org/10.1353/cul.... !
In CC 127, Jauregui stresses that "one of the core ideas about neoliberalism and contemporary capitalism that the other types of analysis hide: the understanding of the private and privatizing logic of the economic world of individuals." Read more at doi.org/10.1353/cul.... !
Per Engelking, "both Schmitt's and Kojève's proximity to the circles of power led some researchers to the conclusion that they were "reckless minds""—see if you agree in CC 127, now live at doi.org/10.1353/cul.... !
"To listen, on the other hand, involves an active following of what is heard—or even listening for something despite the fact that there is nothing to hear—in a kind of empty intentionality."—read more on Grüny's distinctions in CC 127! doi.org/10.1353/cul....
CC 127 is now LIVE on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54600
“Form is not an index of the novel's thought but the sensuous presentation of determinate concepts,” notes Turner in his review of Bewes’s FREE INDIRECT, now live in CC 126! doi.org/10.1353/cul....
“While Africa is very far from a monolith on queer issues, and the forms of activism being forged there might offer ideas and inspiration to those of us in the West as we face incoming storms of our own”—read more from Munro’s review in CC 126! doi.org/10.1353/cul....
In his review, Brown notes that “making a determination of racism where a full determination is not yet (and possibly never will be) available, is to risk "crying wolf" in a context in which no one yet agrees that wolves live or exist.” doi.org/10.1353/cul....
“Reminiscent of the dilemmas of intellectuals of the interwar period, our generation must once again learn to "think without banisters””—read more of Gambetti’s prescient review of Toscano in CC 126! doi.org/10.1353/cul....
In CC 126, Koc offers a theory of "memetic aesthetics, referring to an exponentially proliferating multiplicity of emergent stylistic categories circulating via memes and other forms of digital communication." Read more at doi.org/10.1353/cul.... !
"Featuring news segments, conversation pieces, cabaret performances, and onsite reports... The Emerald City adopted... a mode enabling it to cover an expansive set of queer concerns through a constantly morphing structure." More from Mills in CC 126! doi.org/10.1353/cul....
Per Goldberg, "sociability has engendered a contemporary proliferation of what we might think of as gender types, in contrast to gender categories." Read more from his article now live in CC 126! doi.org/10.1353/cul....
“There are movements that bring unexpected meetings,” writes DeMay, “and this is good.” More on radical walking and the avant-garde encounter in CC 126! doi.org/10.1353/cul....
In CC 126, Mahler shows how “LADLA sought to forge an alternative relation among peoples across national, linguistic, and racial borders and to denaturalize the commodification of territories and resources”—read more at doi.org/10.1353/cul.... !
CC 126 is now live on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54230
"We operate in a strange academic world in which we scorn “the music itself,”" writes McClary, "thereby leaving it to interdisciplinary scholars like Said who have the skills necessary to grapple with how this medium produces its effects." Now live at manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram... !
"Ideology emerges within the boundaries and coordinates of theory itself, is itself a problem of theory," writes Samuel J.R. Mercer in his review of Fardy's IDEOLOGY AND INTERPELLATION. Read more in Frame 12 at manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram... !
