Hierarchy in Early Modern Culture: Dante’s Divine Comedy and Boccaccio’s Decameron

Roughly and historically speaking, Renaissance, Reformation, and the Copernican Revolution are found nearly at the same time in European history. Continue reading →

The Story-Creature Anomaly: Jeff Vandermeer and Digital Ecosystems

There’s an argument to be made about how narratives shape our perception of many things. A story can go beyond Continue reading →

Borges on Universalism and Nationalism

Borges the Argentine No one is the homeland—it is all of us. May that clear, mysterious fire burn Without ceasing, Continue reading →

Our Desert Islands: Deleuze, Sloterdijk, and the Pandemic

An older version of this article was originally published at 3:AM Magazine. You can find the original here. “Islands are Continue reading →

Thief versus Lover: The Banality in Jean Genet’s Significance

A new tome of Jean Genet’s novels and poetry came out in 2021. Historically, most have had two versions: a Continue reading →

The Basilisk

It’s been impossible to think of a world without AI since 2065, but The Basilisk was originally named by a Continue reading →

The Metamorphosis and The Lobster: 100 Years of Power and Dehumanization

Reviews of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2015 film The Lobster seem to be about fifty-fifty on whether they use the term Kafka-esque, Continue reading →

On the Political Significance of the Abolition of Time in Literature

Let us begin with a question: when, precisely, did literature’s well know deployment of non-linear time begin? We know the Continue reading →