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Educating the Silicon Citizen: Literature, Philosophy, and the Case for Slow Tech

Presumably, it has never been a good time for the Humanities. Perhaps because it is simply in the nature of the discipline to find itself perpetually in crisis, lagging behind the times, dragging its leaden feet made out of indelible words, asking for more and more time in a civilization perpetually...

Auerbach's Languages

Auerbach's command of languages have often made him seem inimitable. But they did not always come easily to him, and they were not exactly a result of training. They were a result of his temperament: his urge to learn what he needed to learn in order to write what he wanted to write.

The State of Comparative Literature—and Arabic

What has happened since the first Comparative Literature hires were made in Arabic over the last few decades?

On the Reception of Roberto Bolaño

I would like to start my contribution at Arcade by proposing a distinction between “comparative literature as content” and “comparative literature as form.”

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