Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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From Petro-Modernity to Petro-Post-Modernity: Disney and the American Cultural Imagination of the Oil Industry

by Levi Thompson In its celebration of machines, of speed as success, and of petro-culture—i.e., the transformation of human experience following from oil extraction in the twentieth century—as the primary organizing principle of society, Disney's Cars dramatizes a concept that... Continue Reading →

Monday, November 10, 2025

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The Roots of the Neoliberal Subject: Margaret Thatcher and the Creation of Homo Oeconomicus

by Alexander Curtis On March 11, 1980, an embattled Margaret Thatcher delivered a much-anticipated Party Political Broadcast. Her budget cuts to state and welfare programs were facing fierce resistance, both from political opponents on the Left and even from within... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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"Passing" as Japanese at the Turn of the Century: On Civilizational Equivalence in Onoto Watanna's Oeuvre

by Julia Meghan Walton In November 1896, the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune introduced its readers to Onoto Watanna, a "bright" half-Japanese girl who had been "prevailed upon" by the newspaper's editors to write a "real" Japanese romance ("A Bright Japanese Girl").... Continue Reading →

Monday, November 3, 2025

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“To Repair Evil and Enrich the Nation”: Moral Doctrine and Political Economy in Joaquín de Finestrad's Vasallo instruido

by Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido "We, and all the individuals of society, must equally offer to the King's heart our will and our intents, which are the blood of the Kingdom; and serve him with our talents, our labor, and our industry,... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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The Age of Choice: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Sophia Rosenfeld

by Disha Karnad Jani In this most recent episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sophia Rosenfeld about her new book The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life (Princeton University Press, 2025). Her book explores how the idea of... Continue Reading →

Monday, October 27, 2025

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The Labor Question and the Critique of Caste in Global Intellectual History

by Vishal Verma The word 'caste' derived from the Portuguese term casta (status-group), and it was the sixteenth-century Portuguese colonizers who applied it in India "to what they encountered locally as varna and jati" (1). The Portuguese used the term... Continue Reading →

Friday, October 24, 2025

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