Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also directs the MA Aesthetics and Politics program. He is the author of States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel (2012) and Narrative Care (2013) and editor of Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (2012) and The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Vol. 1 (2013). He edits Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy and the critical theory/philosophy section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also a member of the boundary 2 collective and an Advisory Editor for the Oxford Literary Review.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Here Comes Everything!
Dinah Lenney and Arne De Boever Interview Christopher Schaberg and Ian Bogost...

Demonstrating Precarity: Vulnerability, Embodiment, and Resistance
LARB's Philosophy & Critical Theory editor Arne De Boever interviews Judith Butler about her 2015 CalArts lecture series, Demonstrating Precarity....

Interview with Michael Marder
Michael Marder talks about this recent books The Philosopher's Plant and Pyropolitics with LARB's philosophy editor Arne De Boever....

Disconnecting Acts: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Part II
Part II of a two-part interview with one of Europe’s foremost thinkers, Zygmunt Bauman....

Disconnecting Acts: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Part I
Part I of a two-part interview with one of Europe’s foremost thinkers, Zygmunt Bauman....

Derrida on the Death Penalty
Today, a review of the latest volume of Jacques Derrida's seminars to be published, The Death Penalty, Volume I, and an ...

Peggy Kamuf on Jacques Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminar
Derrida’s lectures on the death penalty just translated....

Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism
ACCORDING TO SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism “is a book that everyone who thinks about ...

PODCAST #49: Stathis Gourgouris, "Lessons in Secular Criticism"
ARNE De BOEVER talks to STATHIS GOURGOURIS about his latest book, Lessons in Secular Criticism. ¤...

It’s Not All Rotten Apples on Wall Street: Cristina Alger's "The Darlings"
Christina Algers’s "The Darlings" examines the financial crisis from an insider's perspective....
Fiction: New & Noteworthy
Second Acts: Daniel Alarcón's At Night We Walk in Circles by Michael LaPointe Such Great Heights: Erica Jong’s ...

Allegories in an Emergency: Yann Martel's "Life of Pi"
PERHAPS THE BIGGEST SURPRISE at the 2013 Oscar ceremony was that Ang Lee beat out Steven Spielberg for Best Director with ...

Maggie Nelson interviewed by Arne de Boever
Maggie Nelson and Arne de Boever are colleagues at CalArts; they talk about Nelson's new book, The Art of Cruelty: A ...

The Return of the Gods
This is what the authors call the polytheistic life; or, more simply, the good life....
