Robert Hullot-Kentor

One early evening in February, on the occasion of his new book, Things Beyond Resemblance, the translator, critic and philosopher Robert Hullot-Kentor sat with the artist Paul Chan at the The Brooklyn Rail’s HQ in Greenpoint, where they exchanged reassessments of Adorno’s life and philosophy.

One recent afternoon, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, a Brazilian literary theorist, paid a visit to the home…

For all that Critical Theory, not much critical thinking and even less critical politics as the primitive in human beings reasserts itself as bare life.