Topics covered include queering the domestic by examining the diverse functionings of “home” for past and present LGBTQ and other marginalized groups; housing precarity and... Læs mere
Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Drawing widely from aesthetic and critical theories, Nguyen outlines how beauty—or its lack—points to the conditions that must exist for it to flourish.
Songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Black women singers in US musical theatre between... Læs mere
Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration into the environmental politics of Canada’s North Coast has paved the way for massive industrial expansion. Through a situated geographical... Læs mere
From personal essays, travel writing, and artist profiles to dance and visual art reviews as well as her infamous series of columns in the 1960s for the Village Voice... Læs mere
Drawing on interviews with fans, legendary musicians, and music industry figures as well as analyses of songs, albums, film, and... Læs mere
Drawing on years of archival research and field interviews, Bell provides insight into the Catholic Church’s colonial... Læs mere
Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways. Eating, however, is also an English word. Other languages, using other words, order reality... Læs mere
Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces... Læs mere
Anthropologist Fred Myers and art critic Terry Smith discuss six Papunya paintings displayed at a 2022 exhibition in New York, drawing on several discourses... Læs mere
Calhoun offers a new way of writing about suicide, slavery, and coloniality in relation to literary history. Drawing on scientific... Læs mere
Drawing on interviews with Central American artists and curators, Kency Cornejo theorizes a form of “visual disobedience” in which art... Læs mere