Jagged Ontologies Rethinking life, justice, and the biosphere through the sharp edges of jagged ontologyIn this groundbreaking book, Cary Wolfe dismantles some of the most ent...

Forthcoming in July with University of Minnesota Press, "Jagged Ontologies" by Diacritics author and advisory board member Cary Wolfe. For more information: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792106...

Alain Badiou's "Nietzsche", introduced and translated by Diacritics author and former chief editor Bruno Bosteels (with Susan Spitzer), is forthcoming in May 2026 with Columbia University Press. For more info, see cup.columbia.edu/book/nietzsc...

Image: US/Mexico border (public domain)

Call for Submissions (Deadline April 30, 2026): Diacritics special issue "Biopolitics 3.0", special issue editors: Judith Tauber & Sergio Ferrarese. For details on the issue and the submission process, please see: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

This issue has been in the works for a while, and now all of the sudden it's here! Many thanks to Patty Keller and Rhiannon Noel Welch for putting this together!

Patty Keller and Rhiannon Noel Welch put this together! I have an essay on John Cage's ASLSP performance in Halberstadt and just a little on Sunn O))). The Cage will last another 600 years, but don't wait *that* long to read . . .
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muse.jhu.edu/issue/56651

Diacritics (53.1) "Deceleration" is out! This issue gathers approaches to deceleration across different media that share an orientation toward what it would mean to dwell in the immeasurability of time, against its regimented tempos. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56651

Acquaintance 4: Starling Feathers; or, the Matter Near Words - Diacritics March 17, 2026 Acquaintance: Loose Links and Fleeting Connections #4: The concept of “acquaintance” has historically been given much less attention than notions of “friendship” or “love,” the idea see...

New on the Diacritics blog: Julia Laurel Mueller's "Starling Feathers; or, the Matter Near Words," a contemplation on birds, taxonomy, and language, inspired by a finding of bird feathers in a copy of John Ray and Francis Willughby’s 1678 Ornithology.
Read: www.diacriticsjournal.com/acquaintance...

Ambient Life Rethinking the human through Melville’s encounters with oceans, ecologies, and non-Western cosmologiesAmbient Life offers a bold reimagining of Herman Melv...

Forthcoming in June with University of Minnesota Press, a new monography by Diacritics author Branka Arsić: Ambient Life offers a bold reimagining of Herman Melville’s writing through the lens of ecology. For more information, go to:
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792086...

Upcoming: "Murderous Feeling," a new monograph by Diacritics contributor Chad Benito Infante, forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in April 2026.
For more information, see: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791987...

A powerful account of the imbrications of borders and media. The focus may be Europe but the effects of paranoia, surveillance, anxiety and, sometimes, small acts of piety, have global resonances. Highly recommended. Versione italiana da venire...University of Minnesota Press. Highly recommended.

52.4 - Diacritics

More information and the complete table of contents on the website of @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social: www.diacriticsjournal.com/portfolio/52-4/

The introduction to our new special issue on Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" was among the 20 most-read essays in JHU journals in January 2026. Read here for the entire issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198

Diacritics (52.4) "Walter Benjamin's Fate and Character" is out! The editors invited a range of scholars from across the humanities to produce theory in a different register: free-wheeling, essayistic, associative, and digressive. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198

As of January 23, 2026, Diacritics is open to general submissions.

Diacritics is closed down for general submissions during a brief winter break and will re-open general submissions on January 25, 2026.

Wishing everyone a peaceful and stress-free end of 2025!

Praise for Christina Chalmers' "Free as a Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx's Capital"

Read it in @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social at @projectmuse.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/article/908409

An essay on the history of Diacritics and Critical Inquiry by Gregory Jones-Katz in this new issue of History of Humanities

Co-edited by Diacritics board member Tracy McNulty, the new collection "A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity", now out with SUNY Press.

Border Mediascapes How the cinematic gaze reveals the hidden operations of border zones Examining a variety of documentary films made along the borders of Europe since the turn...

Diacritics author Francesco Zucconi's forthcoming monograph "Border Mediascapes" examines 21st-century documentary films made along the borders of Europe, and takes a cinematic eye to the technologies employed in governing spatial movement. Read more: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791891...

Diacritics author Rebecca Ruth Gould's essay on the Nasrallah family in Protean Magazine

a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it.

their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.

Diacritics contributor Alberto Toscano on the genocidal logic of Trump's "ceasefire plan" in Palestine.

The Prettiest Woman Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America “We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurf...

Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social
For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...

'Rethinking Literary Naturalism: Proust and Quignard After Life' by Ian James reads biosemiotics, Proust, and Quignard together to elaborate a theory of literary naturalism. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/RethinkingLiteraryNaturalism 📚

New at Liverool University Press, the recent monograph "Rethinking Literary Naturalism" by Diacritics contributor Ian James

So happy to have my article on The Beatles lyrics in Japan functioning as what I term "world lyric" out in Diacritics!

A new issue of Diacritics (52.3) is out!
With contributions by William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, and Nina Farizova. Featuring art by Misha Wyllie, with an interview by Philip Glahn. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55662

Documents 2: Juliane Rebentisch on Land Art - Diacritics September 17, 2025 What is a document? A lesson, a specimen, a fragment of evidence—perhaps even a warning. Our blog series “Documents” is dedicated to bringing texts from outside the Anglophone world...

In the 2nd part of our "Documents" series, Juliane Rebentisch develops her theory of contemporary art through an engagement with Land Art. Translated & introduced by Mitchell Herrmann.

Read here on the Diacritics blog: www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-2-...

Diacritics contributors David Marriott and Rizvana Bradley are presenting the book series "Inventions" at a free virtual event with @stanfordpress.bsky.social

🗓️ Our next Ask Me Anything is with University Presses on 30 Sept! Join us to learn how small publishers are making the most of ORCID membership. Got questions? Submit them when you register! Register: https://linktr.ee/orcid_org

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