Amir Khan is associate professor of English in the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University in Changsha. His books include Comedies of Nihilism (2017) and Shakespeare in Hindsight (2016). His latest book is The Death of Hamlet (2025). He is managing editor of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies. He lives and works in China. 
Marxism · Philosophy · Politics · Sports · Theory
Bennett Miller’s 2008 film Moneyball depicts the unfolding on-screen of a contradiction. Moneyball as an idea is a theoretical understanding of how the game of baseball works (based on a[…]
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ABSTRACT Marx’s idea of species being is the recognition by humans that their work is carried out for the sake of other humans (rather than for any god or ruler).[…]
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“Once we are shown that JCVD is, in fact, innocent, we are likely to forget 1) that moments earlier we were calling for his blood and 2) the particular events and sequence of events, or types of evidence shown, that had us jumping the gun in the first place. What El Mechri is showing us is how painfully contingent our conclusions about the world are on the particular type of passage we are afforded, the particular unfolding we are privy to.”
