THEORY TO NO END

Audrey Wasser teaches French in the Department of French and Italian at Miami University. She is the author of The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form (2016). We discuss her article titled, "Spinoza and the Claims of Meaning: 'A Word to the Wise'," published in Diacritics 47.2 (2019).

Hjalmar Falk is a researcher in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He is an intellectual historian specializing in modern social, legal, and political thought, historical conceptions of the relationship between politics and religion, and the intellectual history of secularity, with a particular focus on Carl Schmitt. We discuss his chapter titled, "Violence, Divine or Otherwise. Myth and Violence in the Benjamin-Schmitt Constellation," published in The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics, edited by Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala, London, Routledge, 2018.

Dana Neacsu is a lecturer in law at Columbia University and a reference librarian at the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library. She also teaches Environmental Law and Policy at Barnard College. Her latest book, The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx and the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence (2020) is available through the Ebsco book collection for electronic purchase by institutional libraries. We discuss a few select chapters from this text.

Thumbnail image copyright: Calin Liviu Georgescu and Dana Neacsu

Eduardo Mendieta is professor of philosophy, affiliated faculty at the School of International Affairs, and the Bioethics Program at Penn State University. He is the author of The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy (2002) and Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory (2007). We discuss two of his articles, "The Axial Age, social evolution, and postsecular consciousness" (available through his page on Academia.edu) and his book review for Habermas' two-volume work translated as Also a History of Philosophy.

Miriam Fernández-Santiago teaches and researches literary theory, the literature of ethnic minorities in America, and the cultures of English-Speaking countries in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Granada. Her research interests range from Cultural and Intercultural Studies, Critical Theory, and North American Literature. We discuss her article under review titled, "A Post-human Revision of the Feminist Myth."

Galili Shahar is professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at the Tel Aviv University. He researches and teaches German, Jewish and Hebrew literatures and classical Persian literature. He is director of the Minerva Institute for German History and head of the School of Cultural Studies at the Tel Aviv University. We discuss his article titled, "Lament and Being in Hebrew and German," easily accessible through his page on Academia.edu.

Alessandro Pelizzon teaches and researches in the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in Gold Coast, Australia, in the emerging field of Ecological Jurisprudence, with a focus on the right of nature, Wild Law, and Earth Jurisprudence. His main area of interest is the intersection between Earth Jurisprudence and different legal ontologies, with a particular focus on Indigenous legal structures. The text we are discussing today is his chapter titled, "Earth Laws, right of nature, and legal pluralism" published in Wild Law--In Practice, edited by Michelle Malloney and Peter Burdon, 2014. (Thumbnail photo credit goes to the editors as well.)

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is professor of Law and Theory and Director of The Westminster Law and Theory Lab in London. He researches in critical legal studies, autopoiesis, philosophy, art, theology and phenomenology, among others, and he is also a practicing artist, picpoet and fiction writer. We discuss his article titled, "Performing Metaphors," on the intersection between materiality of language, performativity, responsibility, contracts and bodies.

Marsha Bryant researches and writes about modernist studies, poetry and visual culture, women's writing, popular culture and pedagogy at the University of Florida. We discuss her article titled, "Everyday Ariel: Sylvia Plath and the Dream Kitchen" published in Women's Poetry and Popular Culture, 2011. We talk about everyday domesticity as an aesthetic in Plath's Ariel collection.