Critical Inquiry

"Cox rejects the duality of 'natural' and 'man-made' disasters, presenting humanity as 'perpetrator and victim' in the Anthropocene."

New in review, Senida Poenariu on Claire Cox's The Poetry of Disaster: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/senida_poenari…

"Lovecraft sought to visit the horrible truths of deep time upon the island of ignorance formed by the conventions of literary realism."

From our Spring 2012 issue, read Mark McGurl's "The Posthuman Comedy": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

"Vermeulen thus invents a way of seeing screen gestures that suggests the audience occupies a position similar to the readers of 'writerly' literature described by Roland Barthes."

New in review, Kyle Stevens on Timotheus Vermeulen's Plastic Time: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/kyle_stevens_r…

"Imagine a Chinese room without Kant inside it. This room is quite closed up and we cannot see into it. The only openings are two tiny windows or perhaps slits in opposite walls."

From our Spring 2008 issue, read Robert Morris's "The Idle Idol": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

"Fish swimming in coral reefs, for example, usually exhibit not only dazzling dazzle patterns but also countershading."

From our Winter 2008 issue, read Michael Taussig's "Zoology, Magic, and Surrealism in the War on Terror": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…