New Critical Theory Blog
February 22, 2008 by Gabriel
The Unit for Criticism at the University of Illinois has a new blog (Kritik–pronounced “Critique,” I’m told), and I think it’s a Very Interesting Thing. So far they have a number of papers that were originally presented at symposia sponsored by the Unit (including a quite nicely poetic one by Matt Hart and a few thought-provoking questions. We’ll see what it evolves into–hopefully it will not be exclusively literary theory oriented, and have material from people in a variety of disciplines interested in social theory contributing. The model is interesting: a large collection of scholars participate in the Unit, so there is the potential that lots of new and interesting things will show up on their blog.
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