Fifth edition of "Narratology," a seminal text by Diacritics author Mieke Bal, now out with University of Toronto Press. For more information, see here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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A new issue of Diacritics (53.2) is out! With contributions by Pedro Erber, Maxwell Woods, Patrick Teed, Alex Brostoff, and Trent Leinenbach. Also featuring art by Katherine Sherwood, accompanied by Paul Schneider's commentary. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57106
New on the Diacritics blog: "Postcolonial Literature’s Generative Capacities: A Conversation with Rose Casey and Ryan Topper" about their recent monographs, "Aesthetic Impropriety" & "Animist Poetics." Read here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/postcolonial...
New with SUNY Press in May 2026: "Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking" by Diacritics author D. M. Spitzer reveals how opacity and relation in the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes depart from the predominant understanding of philosophy as clarity.
Diacritics is closed for general submissions throughout the summer. We will reopen submissions on September 1, 2026.
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Forthcoming in July with University of Minnesota Press, "Jagged Ontologies" by Diacritics author and advisory board member Cary Wolfe. For more information: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792106...
Jagged Ontologies
Rethinking life, justice, and the biosphere through the sharp edges of jagged ontologyIn this groundbreaking book, Cary Wolfe dismantles some of the most ent...
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Alain Badiou's "Nietzsche", introduced and translated by Diacritics author and former chief editor Bruno Bosteels (with Susan Spitzer), is forthcoming in May 2026 with Columbia University Press. For more info, see cup.columbia.edu/book/nietzsc...
Call for Submissions (Deadline April 30, 2026): Diacritics special issue "Biopolitics 3.0", special issue editors: Judith Tauber & Sergio Ferrarese. For details on the issue and the submission process, please see: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
This issue has been in the works for a while, and now all of the sudden it's here! Many thanks to Patty Keller and Rhiannon Noel Welch for putting this together!
@diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 4mo agoDiacritics (53.1) "Deceleration" is out! This issue gathers approaches to deceleration across different media that share an orientation toward what it would mean to dwell in the immeasurability of time, against its regimented tempos. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56651
Patty Keller and Rhiannon Noel Welch put this together! I have an essay on John Cage's ASLSP performance in Halberstadt and just a little on Sunn O))). The Cage will last another 600 years, but don't wait *that* long to read . . . @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56651
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Diacritics (53.1) "Deceleration" is out! This issue gathers approaches to deceleration across different media that share an orientation toward what it would mean to dwell in the immeasurability of time, against its regimented tempos. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56651
New on the Diacritics blog: Julia Laurel Mueller's "Starling Feathers; or, the Matter Near Words," a contemplation on birds, taxonomy, and language, inspired by a finding of bird feathers in a copy of John Ray and Francis Willughby’s 1678 Ornithology. Read: www.diacriticsjournal.com/acquaintance...
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March 17, 2026 Acquaintance: Loose Links and Fleeting Connections #4: The concept of “acquaintance” has historically been given much less attention than notions of “friendship” or “love,” the idea see...
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Forthcoming in June with University of Minnesota Press, a new monography by Diacritics author Branka Arsić: Ambient Life offers a bold reimagining of Herman Melville’s writing through the lens of ecology. For more information, go to: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792086...
Ambient Life
Rethinking the human through Melville’s encounters with oceans, ecologies, and non-Western cosmologiesAmbient Life offers a bold reimagining of Herman Melv...
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Upcoming: "Murderous Feeling," a new monograph by Diacritics contributor Chad Benito Infante, forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in April 2026. For more information, see: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791987...
A powerful account of the imbrications of borders and media. The focus may be Europe but the effects of paranoia, surveillance, anxiety and, sometimes, small acts of piety, have global resonances. Highly recommended. Versione italiana da venire...University of Minnesota Press. Highly recommended.
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The introduction to our new special issue on Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" was among the 20 most-read essays in JHU journals in January 2026. Read here for the entire issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198
Hopkins Press@hopkinspress.bsky.social · 6mo agoYour 20 most-read Hopkins Press journal articles in January ask big questions: What are human rights? What is cancer? Why feminist bioethics? These questions, and much more, await you at the Newsroom Blog! Peruse the pieces you read most last month now: www.press.jhu.edu/ne...
Diacritics (52.4) "Walter Benjamin's Fate and Character" is out! The editors invited a range of scholars from across the humanities to produce theory in a different register: free-wheeling, essayistic, associative, and digressive. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198
As of January 23, 2026, Diacritics is open to general submissions.
Diacritics is closed down for general submissions during a brief winter break and will re-open general submissions on January 25, 2026. Wishing everyone a peaceful and stress-free end of 2025!
Praise for Christina Chalmers' "Free as a Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx's Capital" Read it in @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social at @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/908409
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Kai Bosworth@kaibosworth.bsky.social · 8mo agoreally cool article - "Free as A Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx’s Capital" by Christina Chalmers muse.jhu.edu/article/908409
An essay on the history of Diacritics and Critical Inquiry by Gregory Jones-Katz in this new issue of History of Humanities
Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 9mo agoNew issue of the History of Humanities Vol. 10, No. 2 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/2025... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @rensbod.bsky.social @criticalinquiry.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social
Co-edited by Diacritics board member Tracy McNulty, the new collection "A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity", now out with SUNY Press.
Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · last yr.What's that? A new @sunypress.bsky.social volume devoted to the metapsychology of Haitian-Canadian psychoanalyst Willy Apollon coedited by Lucie Cantin, Tracy McNulty, and Jeffrey Librett? Yes, please! As the kids say, we are so back. sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Ps...
Diacritics author Francesco Zucconi's forthcoming monograph "Border Mediascapes" examines 21st-century documentary films made along the borders of Europe, and takes a cinematic eye to the technologies employed in governing spatial movement. Read more: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791891...
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How the cinematic gaze reveals the hidden operations of border zones Examining a variety of documentary films made along the borders of Europe since the turn...
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Diacritics author Rebecca Ruth Gould's essay on the Nasrallah family in Protean Magazine
Protean Magazine@proteanmag.com · 10mo agoIn 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home. In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild. proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it. their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
Protean Magazine@proteanmag.com · 10mo agoIn 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home. In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild. proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
Diacritics contributor Alberto Toscano on the genocidal logic of Trump's "ceasefire plan" in Palestine.
mía @lumaruna.bsky.social · 10mo ago" Planning Against Palestine ... They plan for our disposability, we should plan for theirs." Alberto Toscano / @alfatau.bsky.social via @proteanmag.com
Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...
The Prettiest Woman
Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America “We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurf...
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'Rethinking Literary Naturalism: Proust and Quignard After Life' by Ian James reads biosemiotics, Proust, and Quignard together to elaborate a theory of literary naturalism. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/RethinkingLiteraryNaturalism 📚