AAAS Book Awards Part 4: Kandice Chuh’s "The Difference Aesthetics Makes"
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The English Department, the Discipline of English
In the 15 years between my starting to think about these questions and when it actually came out, that was the time when the critique of the humanities and the crisis of the humanities were simultaneously unfolding everywhere. And at the same recognizing that by that time, many of us had actually, we've been tenured in our institutions, ed a not a lot. So for me, in kind of hat was sort of my mid career. But while i could spend the next 20 years hand wringing, i could leave the academy altogether, or i could actually try to figure out whether there is something to be done with where we are,. Um, and tokind of inhabit an english department in a different
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