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A review of contemporary criticism
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Forthcoming in June with University of Minnesota Press, a new monography by Diacritics author Branka Arsić: Ambient Life offers a bold reimagining of Herman Melville’s writing through the lens of ecology. For more information, go to:
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792086...
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Ambient Life
Rethinking the human through Melville’s encounters with oceans, ecologies, and non-Western cosmologiesAmbient Life offers a bold reimagining of Herman Melv...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920869/ambient-life/
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Upcoming: "Murderous Feeling," a new monograph by Diacritics contributor Chad Benito Infante, forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in April 2026. For more information, see:
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A powerful account of the imbrications of borders and media. The focus may be Europe but the effects of paranoia, surveillance, anxiety and, sometimes, small acts of piety, have global resonances. Highly recommended. Versione italiana da venire...University of Minnesota Press. Highly recommended.
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52.4 - Diacritics
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The introduction to our new special issue on Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" was among the 20 most-read essays in JHU journals in January 2026. Read here for the entire issue:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198
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Diacritics (52.4) "Walter Benjamin's Fate and Character" is out! The editors invited a range of scholars from across the humanities to produce theory in a different register: free-wheeling, essayistic, associative, and digressive. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198
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As of January 23, 2026, Diacritics is open to general submissions.
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Diacritics is closed down for general submissions during a brief winter break and will re-open general submissions on January 25, 2026. Wishing everyone a peaceful and stress-free end of 2025!
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Praise for Christina Chalmers' "Free as a Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx's Capital" Read it in
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muse.jhu.edu/article/908409
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An essay on the history of Diacritics and Critical Inquiry by Gregory Jones-Katz in this new issue of History of Humanities
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Co-edited by Diacritics board member Tracy McNulty, the new collection "A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity", now out with SUNY Press.
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Diacritics author Francesco Zucconi's forthcoming monograph "Border Mediascapes" examines 21st-century documentary films made along the borders of Europe, and takes a cinematic eye to the technologies employed in governing spatial movement. Read more:
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791891...
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Border Mediascapes
How the cinematic gaze reveals the hidden operations of border zones Examining a variety of documentary films made along the borders of Europe since the turn...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918910/border-mediascapes/
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Diacritics author Rebecca Ruth Gould's essay on the Nasrallah family in Protean Magazine
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a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it. their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
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Diacritics contributor Alberto Toscano on the genocidal logic of Trump's "ceasefire plan" in Palestine.
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Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with
@uminnpress.bsky.social
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The Prettiest Woman
Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America “We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurf...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918323/the-prettiest-woman/
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'Rethinking Literary Naturalism: Proust and Quignard After Life' by Ian James reads biosemiotics, Proust, and Quignard together to elaborate a theory of literary naturalism. Find out more ➡️
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New at Liverool University Press, the recent monograph "Rethinking Literary Naturalism" by Diacritics contributor Ian James
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So happy to have my article on The Beatles lyrics in Japan functioning as what I term "world lyric" out in Diacritics!
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A new issue of Diacritics (52.3) is out! With contributions by William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, and Nina Farizova. Featuring art by Misha Wyllie, with an interview by Philip Glahn. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55662
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In the 2nd part of our "Documents" series, Juliane Rebentisch develops her theory of contemporary art through an engagement with Land Art. Translated & introduced by Mitchell Herrmann. Read here on the Diacritics blog:
www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-2-...
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Documents 2: Juliane Rebentisch on Land Art - Diacritics
September 17, 2025 What is a document? A lesson, a specimen, a fragment of evidence—perhaps even a warning. Our blog series “Documents” is dedicated to bringing texts from outside the Anglophone world...
https://www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-2-juliane-rebentisch-on-land-art/
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Diacritics contributors David Marriott and Rizvana Bradley are presenting the book series "Inventions" at a free virtual event with
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ORCID
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🗓️ Our next Ask Me Anything is with University Presses on 30 Sept! Join us to learn how small publishers are making the most of ORCID membership. Got questions? Submit them when you register! Register:
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New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about wildfires ecologies, poetry and symbiosis, and the importance of walking slowly. Plus
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cenhs.libsyn.com/237-the-cany...
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Cultures of Energy: 237 - The Canyon (feat. Robert Savino Oventile)
Cymene returns to the pod at long last (yay!) and we discuss recent events and how climate science probably caused wildfires and bears to happen. Then (13:17) Robert Savino Oventile joins the podcast ...
https://cenhs.libsyn.com/237-the-canyon-feat-robert-savino-oventile
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Breaking with the received view of Marx's relation to German Idealism, True Materialism by @jensensuther.bsky.social argues that the materialist critique of capitalist production is inseparable from Hegel's idea that the demand for freedom is a demand for mutual recognition
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As of September 15, Diacritics is again open to general submissions. We look forward to reading your work! For further information, please see our author submission guidelines here:
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"There is no map for this territory. We are incapable of comprehending what is happening or where we are headed." I talked with
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Embracing Pessimism amidst Collapse: An Interview with Roy Scranton - Diacritics
Embracing Pessimism amidst Collapse: An Interview with Roy Scranton Roy Scranton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where he is Director of the Notre Dame Environmental...
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Diacritics 52.2 is out! Curated by Austin Lillywhite & Nicole Seymour, "Queer Environs" features Danielle Allor, Micah J. Goodrich, Alvin K. Wong, Natalia Cecire, John Kennedy, Davy Knittle, Jonathan Cane, André Prado Fernandes, Andil Gosine. Read here on Project Muse (OA):
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55098
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Diacritics' new blog series “Documents” translates non-English theoretical texts to bring them into scholarly circulation. The first entry features 2 excerpts by August Strindberg on natural photography, translated & introduced by Paulo A. Lorca. Read here:
www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-1-...
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Duke University Press
9 months ago
"As If!" by Chase Gregory explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. Read the introduction for free on our website!
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Jean-Xavier Renaud, who has previously published his work in Diacritics, is presenting "Hauteville Digne," a new series of watercolor paintings and postcards, on his website:
jxrenaud.com/portfolio/20...
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University of Minnesota Press
11 months ago
Four fab new releases: -EXPLODED VIEWS: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry by Jonathan P. Eburne -QUIET METHODOLOGIES: Humility in the Humanities by Suzanne Bost -EXPLOSIVITY: Following What Remains by Javier Arbona-Homar -Humanities in the Time of AI by Laurent Dubreuil
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Diacritics author and former faculty editor Laurent Dubreuil has published "Humanities in the Time of AI" with University of Minnesota Press
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Project MUSE
11 months ago
Thanks to the generous support of libraries and institutions worldwide, Project MUSE’s S2O initiative has reached a milestone of releasing the current issues of over 100 journals from 27 publishers!
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Cornell University Press
11 months ago
The forecast is looking hazy. What things are hiding in the fog? More discounts! This week, answer the
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Diacritics (52.1) is out! "Encamped" features work by Eman Ghanayem, Theresa Rocha Beardall, Lily Wong, Liron Mor, Rebecca R. Gould, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, Patty Keller, Imane Terhmina, Ervin Malakaj, CĂ©sar DomĂnguez, Farah Bakaari, et al. Read it here on Project Muse:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54493
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Jonathan Culler, former editor, current advisory board member, and author of Diacritics, will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Paris 8 on March 26.
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