Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...

O'Healy explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades...

Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...

Baron addresses an important cultural question about women’s rights and the rights and identities of non-binary people, and reveals how we got from he and she to zie, hir, and singular they...

Wallace traces the history of how objectivity became the gold standard in journalism, and looks at examples of people who have bucked the trend along the way...

What does music tell us about society?

The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies..,

Neely and Hou-Lin explore the rise of finance in American life over the last forty years and its implications for American workers, families, and economies...

Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sanders and Trump?

Sayyid offers a breathtakingly brilliant meditation on the problem of decolonization through Muslim thought and politics...

For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi party...

D'Ignazio and Klein call for changing the way we think about data and how it is communicated, particularly through visualization...

Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking...

heinz discusses the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape the identities of people who were assigned the female sex at birth and do not identify with that designation...

What does the future hold for the Midwest?

Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others...

Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America...

Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features....

How should we understand humanitarian NGOs?

If you thought Jacques Lacan’s essay on "Logical Time" was the psychoanalyst’s final word on the subject, then this interview has a lot to teach you...

Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...

What is the human and environmental cost of music?

Jacobs makes a potent argument about the role of the media, in its many new and old forms, as an arbiter of belonging and citizenship in our information-saturated age...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Why and how is fiction important to women?