The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
Modern Love
Kirsten Hall explores the components of modern romance from Samuel Johnson to Noah Baumbach.
Netflix’s You and the Reform of the Rake
Kirsten Hall looks at the popular Netflix show and our historical fixation with the “rake”
A Politician, Bishop, and Dissenter Walk into a Coffeehouse
Kirsten Hall traces discourses about the secular and religious In Joseph Addison’s tragedy, Cato
The Rest is Missing: Swift's Satire on the Genealogy of Knowledge
Kirsten Hall analyzes Jonathan Swift’s satires and the tensions between certainty and doubt in the Enlightenment.
Three Genealogies: An Allegory
Terence Sweeney allegorizes Magnasco’s painting, Satire on a Nobleman in Misery and finds a typology of genealogical approaches: Netzschean, Englightment, and Christian
Diptych: The Meaning of Wealth
Timothy Barr explores a hidden genealogy between two quotes from distant historical periods
Diptych: Gesture as Hieroglyph
Timothy Barr juxtaposes two quotes from distant historical periods