Description This set of articles considers how integration manifests in interdisciplinary contexts. Integration as a topic of philosophical investigation extends beyond socio-political philosophy and into philosophy of science and interdisciplinary theory. These articles represent the […]
Category Archives: The In-Between
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Description This website provides interactive, visual tools that depict the vast networks of people and information during the Enlightenment. Using archived letters, travel logs, and other resources, it depicts visually the routes traveled by letters, […]
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics
Description A by-now classic and deeply influential critique of the foundational assumptions of ecocriticism (and strands of Romantic literature), Morton’s book issues a challenge to the idea of Nature as a transcendental term—and to the […]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany: The Salutary Science
Description Cook’s magisterial study explores Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s abiding interest in botany and botanical science and the significance of his botanical writings in the context of the history of plant science. She gives a wide-ranging yet […]
The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization
Description Written over the scope of 20 years of research, Mignolo argues that European colonizers used writing technologies (like the alphabet) as a weapon of war in Mesoamerica, with subsequent political and cultural projects in […]
Critique of Instrumental Reason
Description A series critical essays that connect the rise of Enlightenment thinking with the emergence of state bureaucratic apparatuses that oppress human societies through a distinctive form of ‘instrumental rationality’. Creator Horkheimer, Max Publisher New […]
Nature’s Queer Performativity
Description Through a range of vivid examples drawn from scientific research (from social amoebas to lightening), Barad lays out how nature itself is queer, how it models queer communication through a performative rather than representative […]
The Republic of Letters
Description A ground-breaking consideration of the social history of gender in the Enlightenment. As well as an invaluable source on the social history of the Enlightenment overll, this study gave rise to a meaningful and […]
Cinema and Experience: Kracauer, Benjamin, Adorno
Description Hansen explores the promise of cinema as it defined and changed the notion of experience in modernity and modernist thinkers. Here Hansen proposes a materialst theory of the cinema to help work understand the […]
Nature’s Queer Performativity
Description Through a range of vivid examples drawn from scientific research (from social amoebas to lightening), Barad lays out how nature itself is queer, how it models queer communication through a performative rather than represnetative […]