Prodigies & Monsters is the collaborative blog of Matt Applegate and Hilary Malatino, growing out of their shared interest in continental philosophy, radical politics, autonomist action, decolonial thinking, queer and feminist theory, hot jams, animal-friendly foodstuffs, and things pop.
Prodigies & Monsters: because we find ourselves participants in and solidarious with certain communities of maligned amodern outsiders, those only ever granted political intelligibility by virtue of their ostensible excess from the normative, constitutive exclusions that appear within the boring taxonomic parade of Western identity as preternatural; unforgivably odd-blooded; untameable; insouciant; terrifically strange; folks dictated by unnatural political and erotic impulses. Prodigies & Monsters. At our best, our writing remains wholly accountable to this non-demographic. At our worst, we get short-sighted and love our temporary foreclosures called out.
Matt Applegate is pursuing a Ph.D. at Binghamton University in Comparative Literature (Philosophy, Literature, and the Theory of Criticism). The focus of his work rests on several, intersecting sites of inquiry, primarily: Twentieth Century American Literature, Ethnic and Minority Literatures, American Radicalism, Literature and the Environment, Globalization and Literary Theory, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of the Manifesto.
See his online academic profile here.
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Hilary Malatino is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University (Bloomington). Her research interests include contemporary continental philosophy, science and technology studies, feminist ethics, queer theory, and decolonial/postcolonial theory.
See her online academic profile here.
