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Clay cuneiform tablet showing an astronomical diary from 331BC

Lady Science

Gendered Observation: The Contribution of Women to the Astronomical Diaries of Mesopotamia

By Lady ScienceMay 16, 2019

...the Astronomical Diaries, or if there is even value to searching for them, can rewrite a domain of Mesopotamian culture where gender is traditionally assumed male or forgotten entirely. The...

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An Interview with George Scialabba

By TNIMarch 23, 2012

...the great neglected resources of European culture. I try to say why in the essay “Shipwrecked” in The Modern Predicament. Lawrence was a bit archaic and exotic; Christopher Lasch was...

Essays & Reviews

Contemporary Scottish Friction

By Cal FlynDecember 10, 2013

...Alasdair Gray Eden and After (1965-66) via Scottish National Gallery The coming Scottish independence vote has given new energy to the would-be national literary culture The crowd were...

South/South

Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part Two)

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJuly 9, 2012

...as he strove to look at them with ease and indifference, a faint stain of personal shame and commiseration rose to his own face. Angry with himself he tried to...

Essays & Reviews

Recoil Operation

By Patrick BlanchfieldJuly 11, 2016

...than any other developed country,” with a chart featuring predictable comparisons to Japan, Austria, New Zealand, and others on the OECD list of Developed Nations. Though Mexico is certainly “developed”...

Features

A Predictive Policing Syllabus

By The New InquiryMay 5, 2017

How the past becomes the future

Socialism and/or Barbarism

Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 7, 2015

...flicks a feed. My interest doesn't lie in the general anthropological overhaul bound up with the digital, for which the phone has come to serve as one particularly visible index....

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Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyDecember 29, 2013

...by acting Jewishly, not by looking for "Jewish identity" ReclaimUC: Why is an accrediting commission trying to close California's largest public college? Wall St loves frats How the MLA "job...

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Terrifying Robot Update, February 24, 2015

By The New InquiryFebruary 24, 2015

...the fruit over the runner’s head and hold it in front of his mouth. (via) Actually to be honest I think that's kind of adora... OH GOD KILL IT...

Essays & Reviews

Public Spaces

By Brian DroitcourOctober 29, 2012

...an analysis of contemporary art and media culture, where he describes the proliferation of artworks that unfold in time—from film and video to durational performance—as an implicit affirmation of modernism's...

Essays & Reviews

Anthropocene Realism

By Morgan AdamsonNovember 30, 2015

...do all the forced smiles and awkward testimonials in the Williston promotional video. It is tempting to dismiss its pathos as the futile efforts of a culture in decline, but...

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Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, March 24, 2015

By The New InquiryMarch 24, 2015

...At 0:09 is the face you'll see when you wake up to her standing over your bed, knife in hand • • • This classical music is nice...

Features

The Beautiful Struggle

By Daphne A. BrooksJuly 22, 2019

A meditative syllabus on Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Essays & Reviews

The Fake as More

By Sarah Nicole PrickettJuly 22, 2014

...response, Lana shrugged and said that really, she should’ve tried harder. “Had I known so many people were going to watch [it],” she told The Daily Star in 2012, “I’d...

Essays & Reviews

Pussy Riot's U.S. Tour?

By A.M. GittlitzApril 26, 2012

...in the “fatherland.” The band has derived their success — and scorn — by turning contemporary punk culture on its head. Where punk was once relegated to musky basements, squats,...

Essays & Reviews

The Honeyed Siphon

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 17, 2014

...who cannot be made to understand the necessity of abstaining from bread, potatoes, apples etc., it becomes a very difficult task to teach them what to eat, drink and avoid.”...