Archive for September, 2024

Moving away from postcolonial thought’s accounts of internationalist failure in the 1990s, this essay asks, how might anticolonial thought agitate in the present? Agitation, from the Latin agito, denotes a…

Postcoloniality as a formation is haunted by failure. After the dismantling of European empires in the mid-twentieth century, the promise of decolonization dissipated quickly, as crises of governance, and flawed…

Describing his unsettling return to Cambridge in 1945 after World War II, Raymond Williams ponders the “new and strange world around us” where people “just don’t speak the same language.”1…

From charismata to rizz, the concept of charisma continues to swell and transform in intriguing ways. The Oxford University Press declared the slang term “rizz” the 2023 word of the…

“Marriage hygiene” may not be a keyword now, but it was in the 1930s, when it was used chiefly as a euphemism for birth control. It appeared prominently in Lysol…