Times Literary Supplement | Fantastic Review of Arthur Bahr’s Chasing the Pearl

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Dream poem: Unfolding the many meanings of a meditation on grief A book review by Mary C. Flannery was featured in the Times Literary Supplement: August 2025 issue, a rare and prestigious spotlight for an academic work. In the book, Professor Arthur Bahr does the...

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Art in America: Reframed | New article by Prof Eugenie Brinkema, “Deleuze’s Newly Translated Seminars on Painting Are Chaotic and Magnificent”

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Prof Eugenie Brinkema explores the philosophical history and effects of Giles Deleuze’s eight essays on paintings, delivered between 1981-2023. For starters, “Philosophy, for Deleuze, is an act of creation: “the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating...

Prof Ben Mangrum’s newest book released this July 2025! The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence

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In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we’ve made sense of the technology’s sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From the first Broadway play to include a computer in the...

MIT News | Processing our technological angst through humor with Prof Ben Mangrum!

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Associate Professor Benjamin Mangrum’s new book explores how we use comedy to cope with the growth of computer technology in modern life. MIT News discusses Literature’s Professor Ben Mangrum’s newest book The Comedy of Computation: Or How I Learned to...