...Mark Garrett Cooper; John Marx The authors argue that contemporary discussions of crisis in the humanities are best understood as part of a longer genealogy of crises extending through the mid-twentieth century to the late nineteenth-century beginnings of the modern American research university...

... in present Chinese society. The cross-dressing performance transgresses the boundaries between man and woman, traditional and modern, local and global, marginal and mainstream. The crisis of categories that this trespassing entails has proven significant for cultural reform and renewal. Li Yugang’s story...

.... Even though college-educated black women are actually more likely to marry than their less educated sisters, Something New embraces the very common framing of the marital crisis as especially acute for middle-class black women and as due, in part, to black women’s insistence on holding out...

...Patricia Stuelke This article posits that recent reparative responses to the opioid crisis are consistent with a longer history of reparative hermeneutics conditioned by the drug wars in the Americas, ones that attempt to repair but often reinforce the biopolitical logics produced by the artificial...

... to this essay a growing tension, between the outlooks and prospects of DH faculty and graduate students and those of faculty and graduate students in the mainstream humanities. This divide is not only economic but theoretical as well. Put most starkly, academics on the left blame the crisis in the humanities...

...Grace Lavery “The King’s Two Anuses: Trans Feminism and Free Speech” critically examines the discourses of trans feminism and free speech absolutism as they have converged in a number of public controversies in the wake of the 2016 election of Donald Trump. It argues that the crisis of democratic...

... intuition of the virtual One-All. The conception of the co-immanence of the One-All and the multiplicity of beings is pertinent to considerations of contemporary pandemics as well as to the climate crisis insofar as it offers neither hermeneutic resolution, policy diktats, or moral judgment, but simply one...

.... Clare, Stephanie. “Feeling Cold: Phenomenology, Spatiality, and the Politics of Sensation.” 24.1: 169–91. Cooper, Mark Garrett. “Crisis, Crisis, Crisis: Big Media and the Humanities Workforce.” 24.3: 127–59. Des Forges...

... of the 2007 crisis; but he is also a libidinal monster whose devouring desires reflect the dynamics of finance. According to him: “risk-management models [. . . ] are the very same mathematical models that demonstrate how atoms of calcium penetrate into the bones [ il penetrare degli atomi di calcio nelle...

... into account. Pathology and the Discourse of the Crisis Mr. Hope argues that feminist readings of the patriarchal social symbolic are over dependent on the political myth ofan atavistic male homosexual/social order, along the lines of the exogamous marriage proposed by Levi-Strauss, Lacan, and other "fathers...

... crisis, structural adjustment, and economic liberalization, the extension of capitalist development and monetization was already sowing new divisions and deepening the separation between town and country. This is a process that, in different ways, has been occurring worldwide, which is why I have agreed...

.... The discursive prominence granted to the body is coextensive with the discourse of modernity and, particularly since the end of the last century, it has become the key issue conveying the crisis of nationality in the sense of the loss of the naturalistic paradigm. The classical epistemic frame had, in fact...

... of financialization (what I mean by this phrase should be clear from what follows), not to mention the crisis that we still find ourselves in, can be traced back to the beginning of the 1970s. The year 1973, in particular, stands out as an exceptional year when it comes to financial history. This “annus horribilis...

... demands of a particular moment. Speaking specifically of May ’68, but also generally about moments of political crisis, Bourdieu notes how in such moments individuals are likely to set aside the usual practices of affiliation...

... of the beautiful and the sublime that it elicits in others, and for its ethical dimension insofar as it is articulated to a collective work, as a kind of contribution to the edification of humanity’s heritage ( “Pour” ). Mr. C testifies to this passage during a crisis, which he is careful to specify...

.... By turning his personal crisis into a cultural crisis, Mill helped to put the question of what should be done about it squarely at the center of intellectual debate during the second half of the nineteenth century. To explain Rorty’s...

... change French literature sea level rise Anthropocene As Paris was preparing to host the twenty-first United Nations Climate Conference (cop 21) in the last week of November 2015, the daily newspaper Libération devoted its Thursday literature supplement to the global climate crisis, inviting...

.... Rosi Braidotti, in Patterns oj Dissonance, is concerned not only to identify the sense of loss that afflicts us as contemporary subjects, but also to provide a political account of the gendered nature of the nostalgia and morbidity with which contemporary discourses of "crisis" are imbued: 176...

... the university’s knowledge. They are not themselves thwarted capitalist masters in abeyance. Insofar as the exploitation of that structure is intolerable, desire is the sublimatory possibility to go on strike, via hysterical identification, to induce the latent crisis immanent to capital’s stranglehold...

... George . “ Postmodernity and Transnational Capitalism in Latin America .” On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary American Culture . Eds. Yüdice George , Franco Jean , and Flores Juan . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1992 . 1 - 28 . Vol. 4 of Cultural Politics. 4 vols...