Reviews

Review of Ben Mangrum’s The Comedy of Computation, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence

This spring, I tuned in to an episode of the New York Times podcast Hard Fork to hear an interview with Karen Hao, the author of Empire of AI (2025). Hao explains her choice of “Empire”…

By Scott Selisker

No Rape Involved. Racial Fantasies and State Violence in One Battle After Another

By Fania Noël

Provocations / Latinx Revolutionary Horizons and Expanding the Latinx Studies Field Imaginary

By David J. Vázquez

Ghostly Aesthetics: Lorna Simpson: Source Notes at The Met

By Brittney Frantece

Hosting Ambivalence: nora chipaumire’s Dambudzo

By Fabien Maltais-Bayda

Review of Jon L. Pitt’s Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan

By Mei Fujie

Slow Motion’s Half-Rhyme: Mark Goble’s Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion

By Omid Bagherli

Review of Larry Stanton’s Think of Me When It Thunders

By Graham Feyl

‘Like art vanishing into architecture’: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon’s Modernist Supergraphics

By Christopher Gortmaker

The Dead Cannot Die: The Art of Mourning in What You Make of Me

By Teddy Duncan Jr.

Review of Scientia Sexualis

By Maria Cecilia Azar & Hunter Scott

Nothing Ever Happens: Dramaturgies of Nothing in Alex Tatarsky’s Nothing Doing (2025) and @2girls1bottl3 (2022-)

By Miya Shaffer

Review of Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

By Ekundayo Igeleke

Review of Amber Jamilla Musser’s Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined

By Archita Arun

Review of Leah Modigliani’s Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action

By Shannon Constantine