Critical Inquiry

@CriticalInquiry

Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.

Hyde Park, Chicago
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu
Joined October 2011
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  1. Apr 13

    "Can a machine have toothache? There are some questions we should never put to Siri and other talking chatbots, or we will come away feeling underwhelmed by the machine’s much-touted intelligence." Wittgenstein in the Machine by Lydia H. Liu:

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  2. Apr 8

    "At no other time in history have people been so easily able to organize and have their voices heard when speaking out against the oppressive forces that aim to marginalize them." Jeff Frenkiewich reviews The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch:

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  3. Apr 7

    In memory of Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021). Read his "The Conflicts of the Faculty." Open access at:

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    Apr 6

    Marshall Sahlins, a giant in the field of anthropology and a treasured author, died yesterday at his home in Hyde Park. This is Marshall in 2013, enjoying a pastrami sandwich at Manny’s Cafeteria, his favorite Chicago lunch spot. RIP.

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  5. Apr 1

    Read Homi Bhabha's "The Fragility of Democracy: Now Everywhere and Anywhere." Now on the CI blog.

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  6. Mar 31

    "Starr uses the paired films in each chapter to explore a specific theme that characterizes Mizrahi’s work, such as queerness, national anxiety, and the place of women in society." Ghenwa Hayek's review of Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema:

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  7. Mar 29

    Don't miss A Life in Postcolonial Theory: Homi K. Bhabha interviewed by Dipesh Chakrabarty this Thursday at 6pm CST! Find more info and a link to sign up here:

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  8. Mar 24

    New on the CI Review: Alen Agaronov reviews Epidemic Illusions by Eugene T. Richardson. "Refusing credit for a critical text on colonialism is not out of step, but seldom is this embodied in a book’s form."

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    Mar 19

    An especially rich new issue of : on Hugh Kenner's networks, Lydia Liu on Wittgenstein in AI research, and Mingyi Yu on algorithms before algorithms (1684-1958) [paywalled]

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  10. Mar 19

    Spring is here! Check out the issue on the CI website.

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  11. Mar 17

    "COVID-19 is a singular global event that has opened up an epoch in human history, a pandemic that will run its course in the indeterminate future." Read "Present Tense 2020: An Iconology of the Epoch" by W. J. T. Mitchell form our Winter 2021 issue:

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  12. Mar 10

    "Power is an epiphenomenon of order; it arises only where a certain geometry of social relations is fixed and active." Paul North reviews Power in Modernity by Isaac Ariail Reed on The CI Review:

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  13. Mar 5

    This Spring, CI Visiting Professor Wendy Chun will hold 2 virtual public lectures. Public lecture 1: Beyond Verification: Authenticity and Mis/Disinformation (7 May at 6pm) Public lecture 2: Critical Data Studies ( 21 May at 6pm)

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  14. Mar 4

    "One need not take such an extreme contrast as geoengineers and slum dwellers to see these two fundamentally opposed ethical alternatives manifesting in the Anthropocene." Read "Anthropocene/Anthroposcene" by Bina Gogineni and Kyle Nichols:

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  15. Mar 3

    Spring issue is coming soon!

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  16. Mar 2

    Read W. J. T. Mitchell's "The Revolution Was Televised" on the CI blog.

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    Feb 26

    So one of the best articles on Bitcoin (and the blockchain) turns out to be "The Beauty of the Very Idea", by Frances Ferguson in .

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  18. Feb 24

    "In other words, Mattar draws renewed attention to the shabahs or ghosts of world literature’s others produced in its wake." Read Yasmine Khayyat's review of Specters of World Literature by Karim Mattar:

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  19. Feb 22

    "If intellectual community was the object of Wayne’s teaching, it was even more insistently its subject matter as well, both in his classroom pedagogy and in his most influential writings." Read James Chandler's statement on The Chicago Blog:

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  20. Feb 22

    The University of Chicago Press celebrates Wayne Booth, one of CI's founding editors (and frequent contributors).

    Today would have been the 100th birthday of the great critic Wayne C. Booth. Here's a tribute to him by James Chandler and an excerpt, "The Implied Author as Friend and Guide" (on Jane Austen), from The Rhetoric of Fiction
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