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  1. Our Current Issue

    Our Winter 2014 issue features Giorgio

    Agamben, Marjorie Perloff, François Villa,

    and more…

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  2. Talal Asad on Humanitarianism

    available free online and forthcoming in print. Also see Charles W. Collier on gun control, Anya Bernstein on Pussy Riot, Giorgio Agamben on Aristotle, and more…

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  3. In the Moment:  The CI Blog

    In the Moment: The CI Blog features theoretically sophisticated interventions in current politics, art, and scholarship by CI’s board members and contributors

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  4. Robert Morris Video

    Watch Robert Morris's recent lecture with an introduction by W. J. T. Mitchell

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  5. Marjorie Perloff on Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind

    A new essay from the Winter 2014 issue. Available in full with accompanying images, video, and audio.

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  6. Philip Roth remembers Richard Stern

    Web Exclusive: Philip Roth remembers his colleague Richard Stern, who passed away in January, 2013.

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  7. Now available: Signature Derrida

    Edited by Jay Williams with an Introduction by Françoise Meltzer, a wide-ranging anthology of Derrida's writings in CI

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  8. Critical Inquiry Books

    Books from Critical Inquiry range from perennial favorites like On Metaphor, On Narrative, and “Race,” Writing, and Difference to Saints (2011) and the forthcoming Signature Derrida

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