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Codex

2025-07-27 Fetishizing the Right
2024-12-26 Endgame Emotions
2024-12-21 Cooperative Ideals at the Heart of Everything
2024-12-21 A Fireball in the Marshall Islands
2024-12-11 Fact, Fiction, and the Father of the Bomb
2024-12-11 On Jennifer Banks’s Natality
2024-12-11 On Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World
2024-08-25 Nothing Proto About It
2024-05-11 Feeling Solarpunk
2023-12-28 The Extremely Long Paragraph
2023-12-23 On the Heidegger Hoax
2023-12-11 The Ironic Radical
2023-12-09 Foundational Anxieties
2023-10-18 The General Crisis of Whiteness
2023-10-16 The Best of All Possible Wars
2023-10-16 A Gargantuan Pulp Sphinx
2023-10-16 Science Fiction as Mode of Action
2023-10-09 Trick of the Light
2023-10-09 Poverty Abolition
2023-06-12 To Salvage Utopian Love
2023-06-11 Game Wonder
2023-05-29 The Future of Doctoral Education
2023-03-20 Dancing on the World’s Thin Crust
2023-03-11 Fuck the Poetry Police
2023-03-11 Don’t Be Afraid of Going Wrong
2023-01-23 Jeremy Strong Theory
2023-01-09 The Heirs and Their Hair
2023-01-07 The Body of Thought
2023-01-01 Unity in Diversity
2023-01-01 All Architectures I Am
2023-01-01 A Diary Is a Place for Dreaming
2022-12-30 The Dreariness of Book Club
2022-12-19 There Is No Escape
2022-12-18 The Funnel and the Horn
2022-12-16 The Provincialization of Fanon
2022-12-15 Noel Ignatiev’s Communist Education
2022-12-15 Multiculturalism in Middle-Earth
2022-12-15 The Earth Is a Haunted House
2018-08-25 The Westworld Rickroll
2018-05-02 Infinity War
2017-09-25 Star Trek Discovery
2017-08-23 CRISPR, Patents, and Nobel Prizes
2017-08-21 Death is the Enemy
2017-08-14 Eastwatch
2017-08-04 Taking Solace in Attack on Titan
2017-07-31 Cersei, Dany, and Tracy Flick
2017-07-24 Stormborn
2017-07-17 Dragonstone
2017-07-13 The Cosmology of Game of Thrones
2017-06-16 The Cult of the Clitoris
2017-05-24 Damaging Words
2017-03-01 Confessions of a Trump Voter
2017-02-19 The Thousand Eyes of Watch Dogs 2
2017-02-14 Living for the City
2017-02-10 Beyond Blade Runner
2017-02-03 The Enduring Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
2017-02-02 Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
2017-01-30 Lyric Address
2017-01-29 White Men on a Mission
2017-01-19 A Man in Himself is a City
2017-01-18 A Conversation with Bernard-Henri Lévy
2017-01-17 What Keeps Everything from Happening at Once?
2017-01-15 Minimal Care
2017-01-14 Memorable Speech
2017-01-12 Certitude Unwoven
2017-01-12 The Short Story in the Age of Tumblr
2017-01-03 A Theme on Love
2017-01-03 Carried Off to the World’s End
2017-01-02 The Cybernetic Humanities
2016-12-31 Roland Barthes's Tokyo
2016-12-29 Give Us Today
2016-12-27 Metafictional Machinations
2016-12-26 Political Surrealism, Surreal Politics
2016-12-25 Between the Living and the Dead
2016-12-24 Global Weirding
2016-12-23 There Will Be Feelings
2016-12-21 Allegorical Knowledge
2016-12-17 An Empire Divided
2016-12-16 My Nature Is to Dive
2016-12-12 What We’ve Got Here
2016-12-11 To Read is to Choose
2016-12-11 Up Out of the Darkness
2016-12-10 The World According to Stanisław Lem
2016-12-05 Why Moviegoing Matters
2016-12-03 This is Science Fiction?
2016-11-19 Kafka: An End or a Beginning?
2016-11-16 The Buddhist Challenge
2016-11-15 Quiet, Too Quiet
2016-11-08 Nowhere Now
2016-11-06 The Shrugged Atlas
2016-11-05 The Soviet Matrix
2016-11-01 The Network Imaginary
2016-10-23 A Way of Taking in the World
2016-10-18 Vulgar and Unsightly
2016-10-16 Provisionally Speaking
2016-10-12 Soul and Dual
2016-10-08 Language of Hope
2016-10-08 Mirroring and Mattering
2016-10-07 Westworld, Season One
2016-10-05 The Art of the Possible
2016-09-24 Untying Bodies
2016-09-06 Normative Commitments
2016-09-04 Cosmology Returns in the Connected Age
2016-09-01 Heavy Metal Parking Lot and the Meaning of Life
2016-08-30 Stranger Things, Season One
2016-08-10 Make the Wrong Choice
2016-07-24 Neoliberal Tools (and Archives)
2016-07-18 Embarrassing Ourselves
2016-07-14 The Winds of Winter
2016-07-14 Derrida's Metaphors
2016-07-14 The Question Concerning Heidegger
2016-07-13 The Bones of What You Believe
2016-07-13 On Extinction and Capitalism
2016-06-23 Battle of the Bastards
2016-06-14 No One
2016-05-08 Collaborating with Surveillance
2016-05-08 Type Slowly
2016-05-07 What’s so Bad About Original Sin?
2016-05-07 Literary Nigeria
2016-05-07 The United States Is Not a Democracy
2016-04-06 A History of Patriarchy
2016-03-31 The Mind Lives on the Heart
2016-03-23 The Limits of Absurdity
2016-03-22 Imitatio Americana
2016-03-22 Bildungsroman in the Postmodern Era
2016-03-21 The Conservative Mindset
2016-03-21 Low Art
2016-03-21 John Hillcoat, Mythmaker
2016-03-14 The Sharp Edge That Finds Us
2016-03-10 The Searcher of Patterns and the Keeper of Things
2016-03-10 The Triumph of Atheism
2016-03-10 Why We Need the Dead
2016-03-08 Empire, Nation, and Time
2016-03-08 The Deep Wound
2016-03-08 Myths as Mitochondria
2016-03-03 Englishness in an Apocalypse
2016-03-03 Why Conservatives Hate Fiscal Policy
2016-02-25 All Good Science Fiction Begins This Way
2016-02-25 Does Love Have a Politics?
2016-02-20 Literature and Close Reading
2016-02-17 Evangelicals Are Losing the Battle for the Bible
2016-02-15 Evolutionary Insights
2016-02-15 A Peculiar Oceanography
2016-02-15 Adapting Magic
2016-02-10 The Unconscious Is the Last Activist
2016-02-10 Book of Revelations
2016-02-02 On Killing Dogs
2016-01-27 Loving the Alien
2016-01-24 Imagination Battles
2016-01-14 Pathologies of Organized Violence
2016-01-12 A Historical Nullity You Need to Read About
2016-01-09 Algorithmic Communism
2016-01-09 American Nostalgia
2016-01-08 The Force Awakens Making Things Right
2016-01-06 Etymologies of Sadness
2016-01-02 Are We Postcritical?
2015-12-28 The Endless War
2015-12-28 Toward a New Fantastic
2015-12-25 All Human Systems
2015-12-24 Where Inequality Comes From
2015-12-22 The Matter of Frenchness
2015-12-22 Why Marxists Need Anarchists
2015-12-14 Profoundly American
2015-12-12 No, Crisis
2015-12-12 Why Build a Universe?
2015-12-10 The Language of Cinema
2015-12-02 Synthetics
2015-12-01 Two Books on the Anthropocene
2015-11-30 Troubles with Three-ism
2015-11-24 Putting an End to It All
2015-11-23 Ruined California
2015-11-17 Clickbait Ideology and Viral Violence
2015-11-10 Internet Privacy
2015-11-10 The Problem with Obfuscation
2015-11-09 Deleuze and the Event of Life
2015-11-09 Undigesting Deleuze
2015-11-09 Patricia Pisters
2015-11-08 What Is Becoming of Deleuze?
2015-11-07 The Melancholy of Patrick Modiano
2015-11-04 Absolved of the Absolute
2015-10-26 Make Us Happy
2015-10-19 Power, Powerlessness, Thinking, and Future
2015-10-13 The Questionable Orthodoxy of Genres
2015-10-05 Purposeful Motion
2015-10-02 Language and the Postapocalyptic World
2015-09-28 The View from Dover
2015-09-28 In the Habit
2015-09-28 Postcards from the Threshold
2015-09-28 Mathematician, Statesman, Philosopher
2015-09-25 The Achievement of Young Men and Fire
2015-09-25 The Power of Knightmares
2015-09-23 In Ruins
2015-09-22 The Return to Kant
2015-09-19 The Pure, Messy Math of Us
2015-08-28 Fail Slow, Fail Hard
2015-08-25 Competition and Coexistence
2015-08-21 The Idea of Europe
2015-08-21 Cartooning the Body in *Fury Road*
2015-08-21 Neal Stephenson’s Ideal Forms
2015-08-19 Video Games and Radical Politics
2015-08-12 What Consumes Destroys
2015-07-22 A Therapeutic Cartography
2015-07-20 In an Empire of the Dead
2015-07-14 Spaces Where Maps Fail
2015-07-13 On Aesthetics and Mentality in Speculative Philosophy Today
2015-07-11 The Prophets Leave Hometown
2015-07-11 Corporeal and Incorporeal Machines
2015-07-01 The Warm Equations
2015-06-30 Between Victimhood and Power
2015-06-29 What to Make of Heidegger in 2015?
2015-06-29 The Economics of Mad Max and Star Trek
2015-06-17 Liberalism as Drama
2015-06-03 Un Coup d’Idées
2015-06-03 The Unfamiliar
2015-05-08 Self, with or without Selfies
2015-05-06 The Sound and the Fury
2015-04-23 Three Contemporary Spinozas
2015-04-22 Jonathan Lethem, the Elephant Man
2015-04-18 A Matter of Trust
2015-04-17 Eyes Wide Shut
2015-04-02 To Establish Justice at the Gates
2015-03-25 A Dip into the Forests of the Brain
2015-03-06 European (Union) Nihilism
2015-03-01 Utopia and Its Discontents
2015-02-07 What Is an @uthor?
2015-02-06 How Many Masks Wear We
2014-05-23 Unsocial Sociability
2014-05-15 Then Again I
2014-04-25 Matters of Faith
2013-06-04 How to Read Agamben