This afterword discusses the most important, most under-rewarded, and most unsexy aspect of data visualization: the production and use of reliable underlying data. Starting from the premise that visualizations are only as good as their underlying evidentiary base, Freidman addresses the contributions of digital projects that have laid the…[Read more]

This essay analyzes De Quincey’s use of the figure of tea to construct the distinction between England and “the orient.” The instability of tea as a figure in early 19th-century British culture yields uncanny effects at the heart of De Quincey’s orientalist vision of selfhood.

This paper describes the intervention of the #BIPOC18 collective in eighteenth-century studies. Drawing on Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s model of the “undercommons” to describe the emergence of online academic “backchannels” to hegemonic field formations, it details a few material ways forward toward anticolonialist transformation of…[Read more]