Yesterday, South Dakota State University hosted “Day One” of The Space Between Society’s annual conference. The theme this year is “Staging the Space Between” (organized
Category: History
Terror, Riot, Murder: Reading Spivak, Baltimore, and … Frankenstein?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak begins her essay, “Terror: A Speech After 9/11” (2004), These ruminations arose in response to America’s war on terrorism. I started from
Blood: Anidjar, Foucault, and Teaching Romanticism
A friend and I have begun reading Gil Anidjar’s Blood: A Critique of Christianity (2014). It’s a daunting book, one that almost coerces, given its difficult yet
Reading Godwin, Puar, and Sullivan: Caleb Williams (1794), Terrorist Assemblages (2007), and Prison Religion (2009)
From William Godwin’s Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794): Among my melancholy reflections I tasked my memory, and counted over the doors,
Sketching a Present 