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1. Review of Williams's How to be an Intellectual

   In this review of How to Be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University, Christopher Findeisen analyzes Jeffrey J. Williams’s assessment of higher education in the United States. Linking the decline of funding for universities and colleges, rising student debt, the exploitation of academic labor, and the digital humanities, the review examines the omission of accounts of “the not-so-remarkable everyperson academic, the untenured, the up-and-comers, and the downtrodden.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/properly)

   Malene Fonnes - 12.09.2017 - 15:03

2. “Persist in Folly”: Review of Mark Greif, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973

   Afterthoughts on the end of the sixties, the death of the author, the rise of Theory and the fall of humanism.

   Source: Author's abstract

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 16:36

3. The Primacy of the Object

   In his review of Martin Paul Eve’s Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno, Julius Greve situates this new book on Pynchon within the upheavals produced by speculative realism and contemporary discourses on materialism. In doing so, Greve reminds us of what was always already the case: the literary-philosophical relevance of Pynchon, which turns out to be all the more inescapable in contemporary political climates.

   Source: Author's abstract

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 17:41

4. The Last Novel

   The Last Novel

   Ana Castello - 17.10.2017 - 14:56