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Shakespeare Comics: Q&A with the author
Read more: Shakespeare Comics: Q&A with the authorA Q&A on the making of Shakespeare Comics - exploring how graphic novels and manga adapt Shakespeare's plays and what they reveal about art, time, and culture.

Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self: Q&A with the author
by Roberta Kwan Tell us a bit about your book. My book is about human knowing, or more precisely, humans as knowers. How can we know and be known? What prevents us from knowing? How should we know? The book…

Decolonising human rights: a Q&A with Benjamin P. Davis
I want to talk about how all of us can decolonise human rights in our everyday lives, in constructive and imaginative ways

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.

Phenomenology of regular spirit
The phrase "phenomenology of regular spirit” rolled off the tongue easily, quickly, and thoughtlessly. How else would one distinguish between two books with such similar titles? Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, that text that needs no introduction and our text, Phenomenology of Black Spirit. But in the invisible regularity of calling Hegel’s text “regular,” we were reminded of how irregular Blackness and Black people are and have been.

Plato on how to describe the changing world
by Takeshi Nakamura From time to time throughout his dialogues, Plato complains how difficult it is to capture the transient natural world with inert language (e.g., the Theaetetus and the Cratylus). After all, the world in flux changes as you…

Q&A with Patrick O’Connor
Q. Tell us a bit about your book A. Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned is really a book about the importance of philosophy for literature. In it, I look at how one writer uses philosophy to…

Shimmer: The Kiss of Life Includes Us, Too
An extract from Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose Australian anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose’s remarkable final book is a landmark piece of interdisciplinary, multi-species scholarship based on fieldwork with the zoologists, conservationists and Aboriginal…

A Conversation with Graham Harman and Monika Kaup on ‘New Ecological Realisms’ (Part 4)
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Missed Part 1 – 3? Check them out here!Part 1Part 2Part 3 Or read the full conversation here! Graham Harman: Finally we come to the somewhat unorthodox pairing of your fifth chapter: Jean-Luc Marion and…

A Conversation with Graham Harman and Monika Kaup on ‘New Ecological Realisms’ (Part 3)
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Missed Part 1 and 2? Check them out here!Part 1Part 2 Or read the full conversation here. Graham Harman: In Chapter Two your focus shifts toward the Chilean immunologists and autopoiesis theorists Humberto Maturana and…