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Andrew Marzoni

Andrew Marzoni is a writer, teacher, and musician in New York.

Outside the Text

March 10, 2021
  A charming depressive with David Lynch hair and shirt collars unbuttoned to the nipple, Jackie “Jacques” Derrida was named after the child star of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid by middle-class Jewish parents in El Biar, a suburb of Algiers, in 1930. Thirty-seven ...
A cigarette floats in space, a smoke ring emerging from its tip and forming a halo.

Commodity of Doom

September 7, 2020
Pfizer Inc., the multinational corporation responsible for pharmaceutical blockbusters Viagra and Lipitor, made Hollywood history in 2018 with a campaign for Chantix, a smoking cessation aid known to induce nightmares and suicidal ideation. The package features actor Ray Liotta, ...
A professor doing a one-handed handstand on a table tweets with his free hand. Bemused students look on in irritation as they attempt to study despite the theatrics.

The Trolls of Academe

On the occasion of the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, which convened last May on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Richard Utz, president of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism and chair of the School of Literature, ...
A psychedelic, acid-inspired rendering of Michel Foucault in front of a mountain landscape.

Foucault in the Valley of Death

The first time that Simeon Wade read Michel Foucault was in a graduate seminar at Harvard in the 1960s. Madness and Civilization had been translated into English in 1965, and the book excited Wade, who had been vice president of the Baptist student union at the College of ...