Contributions by Alejandro Cerda-Rueda, Mladen Dolar, Samo Tomšic, Andrea Zevnik, Amanda Holmes, Richard Boothby, Patricia Gherovici, Silvio Carneiro, Vladimir Safatle and Alenka Zupancic
This collection brings together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis from around the world to interrogate Lacan's notion of extimité (extimacy).
Traveling Freely, the debut essay collection from poet Roberto Carlos Garcia, explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, and socioeconomic inequality from a uniquely Black Dominican American view.
In this profoundly felt and humorous collection, Michelle Mirsky follows the first year in the wake of the loss of her three-year-old son, tackling extreme loss as well as divorce, friendship, dating, sex, and comedy.
The Mee-Ow Show at 50 presents the history of Northwestern’s Mee-Ow Show, now the longest-running original student sketch comedy and improv show in the country, and its considerable impact on contemporary comedy.
Taking Václav Havel’s concept of “living within the truth” as a throughline, Marguerite La Caze’s reading of international cinema reveals how ordinary people can enact their own philosophies of defiance in the face of authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
The Theatricalists: Making Politics Appear shows how theatrical conditions are interconnected with political struggles: who is seen and heard, how labor is valued, and what counts as “political” in the first place.
Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance shows how collective mourning in settings shaped by an overwhelming presence of death mobilizes resistant epistemologies, opening up new modes of memory, understanding, and archiving.
Max Reinhardt was one of the formative directors of modern theater. Starting as an actor, it soon became clear that he wanted more. His vision of a theater "that returns joy to the people" was vast and expansive: It included intimate theatrical arrangement as well as mass production in the circus arena. Reinhardt's aesthetics were not restricted to a single program but indulged in a playful eclecticism. Thus, his career as a director that lasted for almost 40 years comprises a broad variety of artists of various genres as well as many different styles.
At the same time, Reinhardt soon longed for an international range: guest performances throughout Europe and to the US soon made him into a global star – and even a brand. He represents a metropolitan culture that roots in the late nineteenth century but comes to an end when Fasicsm in Europe ended any...
A lyric coming-of-age journey that sweeps from Detroit to Los Angeles, Find Me When You’re Ready interrogates the myths we carry and explores how we can set them aside.
