Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
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"Admittedly, again, the historical Hegel would never have imagined the extent of the 'freedom' claimed by modernists and would no doubt have been horrified by abstract art."
From our Autumn 2002 issue, read Robert Pippin's "What Was Abstract Art?": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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Join Cita's editorial director Jessi Haley for a virtual reading group on "New Life in the Public Domain," part of Bathers Library's fall reading group series. Mondays starting October 26, 5-7 pm PT. Open at anyone, anywhere; sign up now! tinyurl.com/citapress
"People fail to tell their stories for many reasons: shame, confusion, the willed forgetting that comes with trauma."
From our January 2004 issue, read James Dawes's "Atrocity and Interrogation": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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"This comedy of errors becomes even more hilarious where the social contract between the intellectuals and the administrators is concerned."
From our new issue, read Vilém Flusser's "Problems with Moles’s Concept of 'Freedom'": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
"The passages in the book on 'dissent,' and on society's dependence on "dissent" for its existence, are the book at its most compelling."
New in review, Athanassia Williamson on Markus Gabriel's Fictions: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
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Read Anne Carson's "Stillness" in the Autumn 2021 issue of Critical Inquiry.
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Nobel laureate Anne Carson roves from Sappho to John Cage to Virginia Woolf in "Stillness," an essay published in Critical Inquiry. Read it FREE in October: ow.ly/MyHm50ZWuOo @CriticalInquiry
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Read Anne Carson's "Stillness" in the Autumn 2021 issue of Critical Inquiry.
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
"This comedy of errors becomes even more hilarious where the social contract between the intellectuals and the administrators is concerned."
From our new issue, read Vilém Flusser's "Problems with Moles’s Concept of 'Freedom'": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
"Ideology, they argue, inhabits not only representational content: bias is 'embedded in the logic of representation itself.'"
New in review, Chen Liying on Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert's Vector Media: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
Now open access!
Read Anne Carson's "Stillness" in the Autumn 2021 issue of Critical Inquiry.
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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Congratulations, Anne Carson! CI lecturer in 2019.
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Read Anne Carson's "Stillness" in the Autumn 2021 issue of Critical Inquiry.
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Congratulations, Anne Carson! CI lecturer in 2019.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…
"What constitutes human freedom in a world controlled by apparatuses that are increasingly autonomous?"
From our new issue, read Martha Schwendener's "Technical Images, Operational Images": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
"One connection Tsarouchis’s painting forges, consciously or not, is to Duchamp’s inherently anachronic project of corporealization, of refiguration."
From our new issue, read George Baker's "Yannis Tsarouchis and Anachronic Modernism": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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Rey Chow is coming to Chicago for a lecture; join us on October 8th! Learn more about the lecture, and register: rey_chow.eventbrite.com
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New on the CI blog! Read W.J.T. Mitchell's essay on Trevor Paglen's _How to See Like a Machine: Images after AI_ (2026).
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New on the CI blog! Read W.J.T. Mitchell's essay on Trevor Paglen's _How to See Like a Machine: Images after AI_ (2026).
critinq.wordpress.com/2026/0…
Rey Chow is coming to Chicago for a lecture; join us on October 8th! Learn more about the lecture, and register: rey_chow.eventbrite.com