Out now: Issue 12 of Athenaeum Review!
Our new number is a special issue on AI, guest-edited by Nils Roemer, and featuring additional articles by Andrew F. Scott, Heidi Rae Cooley, Katherine Davies, Katrina Rushing, and Charissa N. Terranova.
Read issue 12 online, download a PDF copy of issue 12, or order the printed issue 12 here.
Athenaeum Review publishes essays, reviews, and podcasts by leading scholars in the arts and humanities.
Images Against Oblivion
Contemporary artists continue this inheritance, extending visual remembrance into the present through forms that often blur the boundaries between pedagogy, family archive, and creative testimony.
Generative AI in the Context of the Arts and Humanities
The task ahead may not simply be to create frameworks for the integration of generative AI into higher learning, but the extent to which AI will require a fundamental rethinking of higher education.
AI: A Studio Approach
Rather than replacing traditional modes of authorship, AI prompts iterative exploration that fuels artistic growth.
Two Versions of Dystopia
Dream Hotel foregrounds our willingness to sacrifice privacy, considerable sums of money, and the well-being of the less fortunate for our own immediate comfort.
Three Books About Life and Death
Lear explores the fundamental contradiction between the quite extraordinary state of science and medicine—our highly developed understanding of how the body works and how to fix it when it goes wrong—and our lack of knowledge about the hidden nature of consciousness itself, or how the body and soul combine to make what we call life.
A Political Artist
By drawing attention to the aesthetics of stacking, Sean Scully gives real recognition to the dignity of physical labor.
Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel. Pantheon, 336pp., $29 cloth.
Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Riverhead Books, 320pp., $20 paper.
Jonathan Lear, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life. Belknap Press, 176pp. $20 paper.