Anna Kornbluh is an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form (2014) and is currently completing a manuscript on the novel form, political theory, and the formalist revolution in mathematics.
Anna Kornbluh
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Writing on Public Books
The Murder of Theory
Reports of theory’s death have been greatly exaggerated, but new villains keep on attempting its murder. Those who would vanquish abstraction with description, trade jargon for vernacular, and discard concepts to embrace particulars have recently enjoyed easy incorporation in the university of administered instrumentality. Lately, they can welcome among their ranks contemporary novelists depicting theory […]
Chicago Law
Baltimore has The Wire, Newark, The Sopranos, and for seven seasons Chicago has had The Good Wife. The city with North America’s highest number of annual civilian deaths by cop and its very own Guantanamo-aspirant black-site detention facility, Homan Square, the city that has perfected machine politics, election fraud, felony embezzlement, and the pork that […]
