SPONTANEOUS ACTS OF SCHOLARLY COMBUSTION

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The Fight for Black Liberation: Breaking the Political Strings in the Trump Era

The first presidency of Donald J. Trump further unveiled the calamity of white America’s determination to maintain societal order during a period of landmark racial upheaval. From the restrictive voting measures led by Republicans and ...

Selected Essays, 2019–2023

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There are floods that destroy entire contents of a library or publishing house; libraries and museums bombed during wartime; authors themselves demanding certain works or letters be burned at their death; those who attempt at ...

Thinking with the Sleeping Body: A Feminist Reimagination of Human-Earth Relations

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In times of Earthly crises, habituated Euro-Western vocabularies and imaginaries -- dichotomist and human-centric -- need to be questioned, and radically different ones developed. Thinking with the Sleeping Body: A Feminist Reimagination of Human-Earth Relations ...

The Before and the After: Critical Asynchrony Now

Between 2020 and 2021, in the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, the thirteen authors included in The Before and the After: Critical Asynchrony Now turned to reflections on the late work of Jacques Derrida in ...

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