Abstract:Queering a disciplinary formation like the field of public address is a queerly normative thing to do. Pulling strands from queer rhetorics, abolitionist theory and practice, and Latin American political theory, this essay muddles about in the implications, difficulties, and promise of that project, ultimatley approaching both 'queer' and 'public address' sidelong and askance.
This article considers the ongoing culture wars in American higher education as an occasion to think about the durability of xenophobic worldviews. Straining against the notion that right-wing politics is fueled primarily by the resentments of those left behind by decades of inequality under neoliberalism, it suggest...
Short Abstract Many traditional subsistence groups have been described as ‘egalitarian societies’. Here we demonstrate, empirically, that nominally egalitarian societies are often unequal across seven interconnected domains. We also highlight evidence that individuals in nominally egalitarian societies do not unfailing...
This paper seeks to read Arundhati Roy's select nonfictional writings in the context of Edward Said's theory on intellectual and secular humanism. By bringing her nonfictional prose in conversation with theoretical framework of secular intellectual the paper argues that Roy's recenters individual agency to provide an e...
This critical notice assesses Matthieu Queloz’s The Ethics of Conceptualization , highlighting its compelling pragmatist account of concepts as tools shaped by human needs. It argues, however, that Queloz’s reasons for concept use do not constitute a fundamentally new kind of normative reason but instead recast f...
At the foundation of knowledge production is the question of who exactly is doing the producing, on what basis, when, where and for whom? Are all views equal? Whose views are or ought to be included? And with what implications? In this 2025 LJIL Lecture, Professor Ardi Imseis meditates on these and other related ques...
In response to the essay by members of the KU Leuven project “Dissenting Church,” I argue that they overlook the metaphysics underlying much of the church’s twentieth-century thought on tradition, leading to unnecessary dichotomies, such as whether tradition changes or is unchanging.
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