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Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder about #Theoryrevolt

Contributing Editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder, the authors of Theses on Theory and History. Please click for the full conversation.

“To Intervene yet again”: Theory Revolt, Live!

By contributing writer Jonathon Catlin In May historians Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder, together known as the Wild On Collective, released “Theses on Theory and History,” a widely-discussed manifesto on historical methodology. On October 8, this “cabal… Continue Reading →

The Pricing of Progress: Podcast interview with Eli Cook

By Contributing Editor Simon Brown In this podcast, I’m speaking with Eli Cook, assistant professor of history at the University of Haifa, about his new book, The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life (Harvard University… Continue Reading →

John Parkinson and the Rise of Botany in the 17th Century

By Guest Contributor Molly Nebiolo The roots of contemporary botany have been traced back to the botanical systems laid out by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century. Yet going back in further in time reveals some of the key figures who… Continue Reading →

Trinquier’s Dichotomy: Adding Ideology to Counterinsurgency

By guest contributor Robert Koch After two world wars, the financial and ideological underpinnings of European colonial domination in the world were bankrupt. Yet European governments responded to aspirations for national self-determination with undefined promises of eventual decolonization. Guerrilla insurgencies… Continue Reading →

From our editors: What we’re reading this month (2/2)

Disha: Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin is a work of political and literary theory that re-interprets the axes and language of past and present as experienced by settlers and Native peoples in the Americas…. Continue Reading →

Spectral Sovereigns and Divine Subalterns

by guest contributor Milinda Banerjee Spectres of dead kings are haunting the world today. In a 2015 interview, Emmanuel Macron declared that since the death of Louis XVI, there has been a vacuum at the heart of French politics: an… Continue Reading →

Reconsidering Mechanization in the Industrial Revolution: The Dye Book of William Butt

By guest contributor Lidia Plaza On my way to Covent Garden this summer, I spotted a Muji store and popped inside.  A few months earlier I had picked up a pair of Muji socks in Terminal 5 of JFK, which… Continue Reading →

From our editors: What we’re reading this month (1/2)

Andrew Hines: How to Read: Wittgenstein (2005) by Ray Monk As someone with a background in post-Kantian European philosophy, whose interests had leaned quite heavily toward phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics and deconstruction, I had unfairly dismissed Wittgenstein as “one of those… Continue Reading →

From the Archive: The Early History of Arabic Printing in Europe

by Maryam Patton (April 2015) In the middle of the ninth century, Paulus Alvarus complained about Spanish Christian youths who were abandoning Latin for the native Arabic of their new conquerors. Yet nearly seven hundred years later, when the last… Continue Reading →

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