Day 1 The first class covered the following topics: A recommendation of several books and scholars, including Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter, Leslie Kordecki’s book on…
“This proclamation made the people of St Albans, who had been in revolt for a long time in their struggle for liberty, the slaves of a…
by KARL STEEL I just realized, just now, that the anxiety over anthropomorphic projection in, say, critical animal studies forgets that this kind of projection…
Image from the Morgan Library. by KARL STEEL Here’s one for Fumblr, the Academic Failblog: Some years ago, while chatting with my students about hunting,…
Lead lid from mirror case: Tristan and Iseult receiving the love potion, King Marc on the right, and Husdent, Tristan’s dog, underneath. Inscription: MARCVIS TRISTREM:ISOVOC…
My CUNY colleague Brian Thill (Bronx Community College, CUNY) just published an extraordinary essay at The Atlantic called “Fake Birds on Film: The nature of unspecial…
While looking for Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 0020, I found a manuscript of Jacques Bauchant’s French translation of the visions of Elizabeth of Schönau (Bibliothèque nationale de…
The Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens was in the process of dismantling its (Do It) Outside exhibition, a show that is–or, now, was–nothing but displays of…
by KARL STEEL Because Julia Carrie Wong has already destroyed David Brooks’ “A Nation of Barrel Fish Mutts,” my dog post can be nothing but a whisper…
by KARL STEEL In Aristotle, Isidore, and a host of medieval encyclopedias, we learn that many worms and reptiles (creeping things) generate spontaneously, mostly from…
