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    A Gitik iteration with nearly Easton factoring
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 68 (2): 481-502. 2003.
    We reprove Gitik's theorem that if the GCH holds and o(κ) = κ + 1 then there is a generic extension in which κ is still measurable and there is a closed unbounded subset C of κ such that every $\nu \in C$ is inaccessible in the ground model. Unlike the forcing used by Gitik. the iterated forcing $R_{\lambda +1}$ used in this paper has the property that if λ is a cardinal less then κ then $R_{\lambda + 1}$ can be factored in V as $R_{\kappa + 1} = R_{\lambda + 1} \times R_{\lambda + 1, \kappa}$ w…Read more
  •  237
    A weak variation of Shelah's I[ω₂]
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 69 (1): 94-100. 2004.
    We use a $\kappa^{+}-Mahlo$ cardinal to give a forcing construction of a model in which there is no sequence $\langle A_{\beta} : \beta \textless \omega_{2} \rangle$ of sets of cardinality $\omega_{1}$ such that $\{\lambda \textless \omega_{2} : \existsc \subset \lambda & (\bigcupc = \lambda otp(c) = \omega_{1} & \forall \beta \textless \lambda (c \cap \beta \in A_{\beta}))\}$ is stationary
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    10. Said, Palestine, and the Humanism of Liberation Said, Palestine, and the Humanism of Liberation (pp. 443-461)
    with Saree Makdisi, Aamir R. Mufti, Roger Owen, Gyan Prakash, Dan Rabinowitz, Jacqueline Rose, Gayatri Spivak, and Daniel Barenboim
    Critical Inquiry 31 (2): 526-529. 2005.
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    Comics as Media: Afterword
    Critical Inquiry 40 (3): 255-265. 2014.
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    Review: D. A. Martin, J. R. Steel, Iteration Trees (review)
    Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 8 (4): 545-546. 2002.
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    Public Conversation: What the %$#! Happened to Comics?
    with Art Spiegelman
    Critical Inquiry 40 (3): 20-35. 2014.
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    Image, Space, Revolution: The Arts of Occupation
    Critical Inquiry 39 (1): 8-32. 2012.
    Is there a dominant global image—call it a world picture—that links the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring? Or is there any single image that captures and perhaps even motivated the widely noticed synergy and infectious mimicry between Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park?
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    A Universal Extender Model Without Large Cardinals In V
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 69 (2): 371-386. 2004.
    We construct, assuming that there is no inner model with a Woodin cardinal but without any large cardinal assumption, a model Kc which is iterable for set length iterations, which is universal with respect to all weasels with which it can be compared, and is universal with respect to set sized premice.
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    Monoid based semantics for linear formulas
    with H. Simmons
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 67 (2): 505-527. 2002.
    Each Girard quantale (i.e., commutative quantale with a selected dualizing element) provides a support for a semantics for linear propositional formulas (but not for linear derivations). Several constructions of Girard quantales are known. We give two more constructions, one using an arbitrary partially ordered monoid and one using a partially ordered group (both commutative). In both cases the semantics can be controlled be a relation between pairs of elements of the support and formulas. This …Read more
  •  77
    Picturing terror : Derrida's autoimmunity
    In William John Thomas Mitchell & Arnold Ira Davidson (eds.), The late Derrida, University of Chicago Press. pp. 277-290. 2007.
  •  71
    Preface to “Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience”
    Critical Inquiry 39 (1): 1-7. 2012.
    If journalism is the first draft of history, these three essays might be described as a stab at a second draft. It is an attempt by three scholars from different disciplines, with sharply contrasting methodologies, to provide an account of the protest movements of 2011, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. We deploy the perspectives of ethnography, political thought, and iconology in an effort to produce a multidimensional picture of this momentous year of revolutions, uprisings, mass dem…Read more
  •  70
    Adding Closed Unbounded Subsets of ω₂ with Finite Forcing
    Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 46 (3): 357-371. 2005.
    An outline is given of the proof that the consistency of a κ⁺-Mahlo cardinal implies that of the statement that I[ω₂] does not include any stationary subsets of Cof(ω₁). An additional discussion of the techniques of this proof includes their use to obtain a model with no ω₂-Aronszajn tree and to add an ω₂-Souslin tree with finite conditions
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    Christo’s Gates and Gilo’s Wall
    Critical Inquiry 32 (4): 587. 2006.
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    On the Hamkins approximation property
    Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 144 (1-3): 126-129. 2006.
    We give a short proof of a lemma which generalizes both the main lemma from the original construction in the author’s thesis of a model with no ω2-Aronszajn trees, and also the “Key Lemma” in Hamkins’ gap forcing theorems. The new lemma directly yields Hamkins’ newer lemma stating that certain forcing notions have the approximation property
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    Poetic Justice: 9-11 to Now
    Critical Inquiry 38 (2): 241-249. 2012.
    The author, Editor of Critical Inquiry, discusses our new website and the changing face of criticism in the age of terror
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    Report from Morocco
    Critical Inquiry 38 (4): 892-901. 2012.
    Every once in awhile an academic drudge gets to visit a place that dreams are made of. We all know the little game in which American scholars compete to mention the exotic locations they have been to: Paris, London, Beijing, Mumbai. But I have never aroused such open jealousy in my colleagues until I uttered the word “Casablanca.”For knowledgeable tourists, this is something of a puzzle. Casablanca is routinely disrespected by the guidebooks for its lack of an authentically ancient medina or a l…Read more
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    In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, ...
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    Dead Again
    Critical Inquiry 33 (2): 219. 2007.
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    911: Criticism and Crisis
    Critical Inquiry 28 (2): 567-572. 2002.
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    Wayne Booth, 1921–2005
    Critical Inquiry 32 (2): 375. 2006.
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    Present Tense 2020: An Iconology of the Epoch
    Critical Inquiry 47 (2): 370-406. 2021.
    When is it a good time to think about time? The answer provided by this essay is that there is no time like the present, especially the crazy, tense present of the year 2020. In this year four distinct scales of temporality have collided in a prolonged period of crisis and uncertainty: (1) the onset of a global pandemic that devastated the world economy and killed over a million people, the worst public health disaster since the Spanish flu of 1918; (2) a political crisis featuring the rise of a…Read more
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    Havana Diary: Cuba's Blue Period
    Critical Inquiry 34 (3): 601-611. 2008.
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    Dead again
    In William John Thomas Mitchell & Arnold Ira Davidson (eds.), The late Derrida, University of Chicago Press. pp. 219-228. 2007.