A great excerpt from a longer work by preeminent indigenous scholar, Aileen Moreton-Robinson. While some of the material may seem to echo ideas in post-colonial and American studies, she was one of the first people to theorize the position of indigenous Australians. In this piece she articulates the way in which the academy continues to position…[Read more]

This article operates more as a personal essay documenting the process of gentrification in a traditionally indigenous neighborhood in Sydney’s Inner West. While Shaw aims to sympathetic and ethnographically self-aware, she falls into the unavoidable trap of reproducing certain oppositions and hierarchies perpetuated by racist traditional…[Read more]

The link above connects you to a television interview from 16 March 1990 in which French photographer Herve Guibert discusses his book on the last days of Michel Foucault. In the interview, he defends the book, which was criticized for exposing Foucault’s private life and essentially outing him, as…[Read more]

http://www.themodern.org/podcast/A%20Panel%20Discussion,%20%22Disidentification%3A%20Race,%20Sexuality,%20and%20Contemporary%20Art%22

The file attached is a scan of one of Ligon’s paintings. The link above directs you to a recording of a panel from 2012 at The Modern in Fort Worth, Texas. the panel asked panelists to discuss or link Ligon’s…[Read more]

In this article, Rita Felski picks up where she left off in “Suspicious Minds.” Instead of continuing with characterizing and problematizing critique, Felski transfers Latour’s actor-network theory to literary studies. In this way, she offers a figuration of interpretation as a coproduction between equals (text and critic) based on attachment…[Read more]

One of the early criticisms of critique, this article started the shift to the post-critical. In it, Latour argues that a particular kind of critical spirit has led intellectuals down the wrong path. An insidious need to negate has led to a state in which matters of concern are no longer accessible or appealing–only matters of fact which can be…[Read more]

This is an article by Distinguished Prof. John Brenkman of CUNY (GC and Baruch). Here, he articulates the ways in which Edelman’s negative turn in “No Future” is appealing as an argument but which in the end lacks foundation in critical social and political theory. Frenchman deftly weaves Edelman’s argument through its own foundations in Lacan…[Read more]

In lieu of an archival nugget, I wanted to post this creative CFP for a conference/workshop taking place this summer in Paris. I will be making reference to it in my discussion of “Deformance and Interpretation.” I think it points to a further opening of critical approaches and the idea of literary criticism as a creative practice.

I found and chose this article by Rita Felski of UVA after one of my sources for our first paper referenced her work related to reading methodologies. It was published in 2011 in Poetics Today, which I was able to access through the GC Library proxy.

This 1993 article by Caroline Woodward strikes as still very contemporary — not necessarily due to her argument, but rather the way in which she writes her own process of reading and discovery into the text of the article. Here, she uses a little known and hard to find text, The Travel Adventures of Madame de Richelieu (I’ve only found it on…[Read more]