Interventions

Welcome to Interventions, an experimental space where authors rehearse new ideas, reframe questions, or play unbridled within Arcade’s field of the humanities in the world. These short posts embrace the incomplete, the imperfect, and the indeterminate, but they may become much more: for example, the record of a thinker’s turn toward a new paradigm or the rough draft of a chapter in a new book. Rapid publication and immediate responses permit Interventions to foster conversation. The tone of the posts may range from personal to political, while maintaining a critical edge. 

Published regularly, Interventions are often freestanding contributions to Arcade, but some may join our feature called Colloquies. Inquiries and submissions are received by the editor of Interventions.


 

Untitled by Jack Gould depicts basketball players fighting for the ball.
By
Haiyan Lee

Let me begin with a bald statement: Race-conscious affirmative action is not about diversity. Rather, it is about justice. And it is about the kind of justice that the American legal system is ill-equipped to deliver: transitional justice.[1]

You might ask, who am I and what standing do I have in...

Sculpture by Man Ray
Science and Nescience: Narratology Stripped Bare, The Case of the Narrator

Sylvia Patron examines the close association, which goes as far as identification, between narratology and the theory of the existence of a narrator in all narratives. This Intervention is the first translation of Patron's article, “Science et nescience: la narratologie mise à nu. Le cas du narrateur,” which develops some of the central arguments from her books.