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 ...

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 ...

Katherine Matt is an intern for The Daily Signal. It doesn’t look like a political rally. There are no podiums, no party banners, no policy papers in sight—just trending sounds, pastel filters, and 30 ...

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

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 ...

If all the world’s a stage, as the Bard would have it, surely some performances are more gripping than others. Some even threaten to upend our lives. To apply the stage metaphor, we are now faced with ...

In 2025, Hannah Arendt’s thought once again moved into the international spotlight: marking the 50th anniversary of the political theorist’s death, scholarly debates around the world intensified. At ...

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 ...