The essays in Aesthetics Equals Politics make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing ...

Alway, Joan. Critical Theory and Political Possibilities: Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas. Westport, CT ...

If eyes are the window to the soul, then eyeliner could be seen as amplifying the soul's purpose. It was around this time that Zahra Hankir – author or "Eyeliner: A Cultural History" – also deepened ...

Scholars are sometimes vague about the exact origins of a book, especially when the research and writing span more than half their lifetime. Not me. Although I devoted 30 years to this study, I can ...

In September of 2009, Neery Melkonian and I went on a ghost chase. I had proposed the idea on a visit to her cozy studio apartment on the Lower East Side. Over Armenian coffee and hand-rolled ...

“Ocasio-Cortez’s uses of Instagram seem to be less about humanizing an individual politician than about politicizing humans; that is, bringing more humans, particularly young humans, into the fold and ...

When I started working as a critic full-time six years ago, my interest in the politics of culture often made me felt like an anomaly at best, and a kill-joy at worst. Now, political criticism has ...

A new study published in Political Psychology suggests that people at both ends of the political spectrum may experience more intense physical reactions to emotionally stirring stimuli, such as ...

Without ending the metaphorization of the East, without moving beyond seeing Kurds as folkloric figures or tragic characters, true confrontation is not possible. Orientalism is not so much about ...

Wes Anderson is sometimes dismissed as all surface, no substance, an aesthetics-obsessed filmmaker without a political bone in his dandified body. But the director’s three most recent films are ...