W.J.T. Mitchell
Geopolitics and the "Facts" of Climage Change: Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty
WB202: The Critical Inquiry Podcast
Bruno Latour discusses climate change, science, denialism and philosophy with Hank Scotch, W.J.T. Mitchell and Dipesh Chakrabarty.
This is a preliminary report on a seminar that I taught with my colleague Françoise Meltzer in the winter term of 2011.
We explored a series of films that comprise a kind of short history of a strange genre that occupies the uncanny realm between horror and film noir, between the spectacle of violent, raging lunacy and the quieter scenes of detective work into the etiology of madness, or its confinement and isolation in clinical and disciplinary settings. We wanted to ask a double question about movies and madness. First, what does cinema reveal about insanity that was not available prior ...
Critical Inquiry is devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities. WB202 expands the mission of the journal with a new platform for emerging and established scholars, critics, and artists to discuss the critical concerns of the past, present, and future.
Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities. Founded in 1974, it has been called “one of the best known and most influential journals in the world” (Chicago Tribune) and “academe’s most prestigious theory journal” (New York Times).
