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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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"What is the other, or opposite, of knowledge? Ignorance? Uncertainty? Undecidability? Theory? Belief?" From our Summer 2006 issue, read Marjorie Garber's "Loaded Words": https://t.co/8OjMyvL1Mu
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"Vallor proposes an evocative central metaphor: AI functions less like an alien cognizer than like a mirror that both reflects and distorts our epistemic and moral practices." New in review, Jaehoon Lee reviews Shannon Vallor's The AI Mirror: https://t.co/0f0BSlPcsw
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"This hermeneutics of love . . . depends on a fairly sharp distinction between seductions that lead toward the divine and those that lead toward the material world." From Spring 2007, read David Nirenberg's "The Politics of Love and Its Enemies": https://t.co/VplRLFmMmZ
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"By what right or on what grounds do we arrogate to ourselves the almost exclusive claims to appropriate for human needs the biosphere of the planet?" From our Autumn 2014 issue, read Dipesh Chakrabarty's "Climate and Capital": https://t.co/CVAF2zXbIw
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This article from Critical Inquiry, structured as a series of five proposals, explores the idea of vocal deliriums—the experience of being spellbound by a voice: https://t.co/2irE0FB6Gu. @CriticalInquiry
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"Palti’s study . . . places its author within the tradition of scholars who interrogate the conditions of possibility of their own discipline." New in review, Senida Poenariu on Elías J. Palti's Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change: https://t.co/MLh1vcI143
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"For Arendt, justice, unlike politics, does not speak a language of persuasion and communication, but of analysis." From our Autumn 2003 issue, read Benjamin Robinson's "The Specialist on the Eichmann Precedent": https://t.co/8DMB7kOoGl
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"The riddle of the Sphinx is not merely apotropaic in its terrifying effects, but apocalyptic, as it combines the promise of revelation and the threat of annihilation." From our Winter 2008 issue, read Daniel Tiffany's "Rhapsodic Measures": https://t.co/ZsrWakzppL
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"The editors' main methodological achievement is their successful defiance of the ideological biases of the Cold War." New in review, Olga V. Solovieva on The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture: https://t.co/UvcrQmbuPU
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"The performance of voicelessness intensifies in Rourke's own films. In each he plays a character who seems at first more like a patchwork of fetishes than a human being." From Autumn 2010, read Keri Walsh's "Why Does Mickey Rourke Give Pleasure?": https://t.co/VKDTyvJ8Cg
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"The kind of discursive monumentalizing the book performs is critical and reflective rather than self-aggrandizing, memorializing a defunct yet still painfully resonant phase of capitalism." New in review, Jacobé Huet on Claire Zimmerman's Albert Kahn Inc. https://t.co/OLgP90AHa1
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"The kind of discursive monumentalizing the book performs is critical and reflective rather than self-aggrandizing, memorializing a defunct yet still painfully resonant phase of capitalism." New in review, Jacobé Huet on Claire Zimmerman's Albert Kahn Inc. https://t.co/OLgP90AHa1
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"Amos makes her lyrical you, also blurrily the me of those lyrics, register simultaneously as the special, singled-out you (potentially any of us) in the darkened crowd." From our Summer 2013 issue, read Nick Salvato's "Cringe Criticism": https://t.co/K3jF32LTnI
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"Benjamin conceptualized his thinking-in-images as the epistemological principle of modernity." From our Winter 2015 issue, read Sigrid Weigel's "The Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images": https://t.co/iaYiTVm8xO
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"Amos makes her lyrical you, also blurrily the me of those lyrics, register simultaneously as the special, singled-out you (potentially any of us) in the darkened crowd." From our Summer 2013 issue, read Nick Salvato's "Cringe Criticism": https://t.co/K3jF32LTnI
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"And that’s what makes AI so scary, why . . . we fear it so: what was once a brushed-metal cyborg now manifests as workplace and state bureaucracies of containment and control." Matthew Kirschenbaum on Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer's Why We Fear AI: https://t.co/HveJmAehiD
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"Benjamin conceptualized his thinking-in-images as the epistemological principle of modernity." From our Winter 2015 issue, read Sigrid Weigel's "The Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images": https://t.co/iaYiTVm8xO
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"And that’s what makes AI so scary, why . . . we fear it so: what was once a brushed-metal cyborg now manifests as workplace and state bureaucracies of containment and control." Matthew Kirschenbaum on Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer's Why We Fear AI: https://t.co/HveJmAehiD
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