Lauren M. E. Goodlad discusses what literary theory can teach us about large language models, why language is more than data, and what it means to put the “humanities in the loop” in debates about AI.
The pages of UC Press’s journals have examined the War from a myriad of angles, from all sides of the conflict–its global economic and political impact, the role of student activism, memory in small-town America, and more.
Christopher Newfield’s 2023 MLA Presidential address, "Criticism After This Crisis: Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study," was published in Representations 164 (Fall 2023). As the 2024 MLA conference commences, we thought it an opportune time to revisit Newfield's 2023 address,
By Martha Feldman and Nicholas Mathew, editors of Representations’s special issue, “Music and Sound at the Edges of History”Most people use music and sound to understand their worlds without needing professional scholars to help them do it. Music, after all, is bound up with memory and cuts
Of the many cross-disciplinary and topical strands that have emerged from nearly forty years of Representations in print, one stands out: a kind of research that perhaps originated in the journal's pages and remains difficult to find elsewhere--what might fondly be called “weird scholarship.” We inv
Representations is honoring women's writing on visual culture by making the following selection of articles free to read online for a limited time. This selection is inspired by the College Art Association's 108th annual conference (February 12-15, 2020), which is devoting 50% of its programming to
