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New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: A Q&A with Stuart Dunmore
Read more: New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: A Q&A with Stuart DunmoreStuart Dunmore discusses his motivations for researching new Gaelic speakers, and the incredible places and experiences this led to.

What is Philosophy? What is Politics? What is Critique?
The editors of Philosophy, Politics and Critique reflect on the contested meanings of the terms which give the journal its name.

Haraway against Deleuze, or, Must We Like Pets?
Ian Buchanan responds to Donna Haraway's reading of Deleuze and Guattari on the notion of becoming-animal

Signaling Tensions: The Politics of Telegraphic Communication in Modern Afghanistan
How does the telegraph function as both a material invention and an object of desire?

Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary
On the third anniversary of the seizure of Kabul, Robert D. Crews asks how we make sense of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

As Mīr Ways Khān slept: miraculous possibilities in Afghan history
What happens when we view supernatural happenings as a wellspring of historical possibilities, rather than as excess to be cut away?

Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again
Patrick ffrench and Timothy Mathews discuss the special issue of CounterText they've recently edited.

Warwick Ball on the cultural diversity of Afghanistan
It is a pleasure to see the launch of the first issue of Afghanistan, a journal to showcase the country’s exceptional cultural diversity. It is the first scholarly journal devoted to the country since the demise of Afghan Studies in…

From the archives – What is comparative literature?
Certain works of literature call especially clearly for a comparative approach, through reference to other works or through establishing comparative structures such as parallel plots. Collectively, these works can be denoted by the noun phrase “comparative literature”. In our featured…

From the Archives – The Creation of the Concept through the Interaction of Philosophy with Science and Art
At the beginning of the book What Is Philosophy? written by Gilles Deleuze in collaboration with Felix Guattari, the authors assert that “the time has come for us to ask what philosophy is”. They explicitly dismiss any hierarchy of the…