Report from an Academy 3: Chile Diary

by Paul North Santiago-Viñas-Santiago / October 2017 For Willy Thayer, who moved a river in me Theory in the Critical International. Professors travel. They trek their personal penury and their meager intellectual wares over highlands and lowlands, and, because culture is supposed to fly outward without stopping and never—gods forbid—turn around and go home again,…

Current Genres of Fate: Fate’s Epic Side

—because despite being enlightened, civilized, advanced, and free, we are trapped— by Paul North In the 1930s a Hungarian psychiatrist, Leopold Szondi, began to think that families predetermine the lives of their members, before he was deported to Bergen-Belsen because his family was Jewish. Through a special negotiation he and other intellectuals were released and…