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  1. Web Exclusive: Nasser Rabbat on Public Space and the Arab Spring

    Tradition, modernity, public space and revolution in the Arab Spring.  Click through for more.

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  2. Web Exclusive:

    Read articles before they appear in print and learn what's next…

    Our spring issue features Tommie Shelby on Richard Wright, Cecelia Watson on the history of punctuation, Andreas Mayer on Gradiva, and more. 

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  3. CI Blog: In the Moment

    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. Erwin Panofsky in Critical Inquiry

    CI has a tradition of making major texts by European art historians and philosophers available to English-speaking audiences.  In this special web feature, we present three seminal works by Erwin Panofsky.

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  5. Web Exclusive: Hillary Chute interviews Alison Bechdel

    This summer Hillary Chute visited Bechdel at her home in Jericho, Vermont, to ask her about comics, space and time on the page, and her new work.

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  6. The Wire: Continuing Debate

     

    William Julius Wilson and Kenneth Warren continue their debate on HBO's The Wire and housing policy.

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  7. Featured Authors

    Each quarter brings a new set of eight Featured Authors, including uncollected articles and free downloads from our archives.

    (Shown: Stanley Cavell)

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  8. In Memoriam

    From our blog: Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan on the late Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011)

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