The Dora Lange Archive: Jacques Derrida Watches True Detective

European Memories: Jan Patočka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility

Saussure and Sherlock, Derrida and the Detective: A Semiotic and Deconstructive Interpretation of the Classic Detective Fiction Genre

Dora the Brave.

I f you notice any particularly fidgety journal editors this month don’t worry—this is merely a symptom of the imminent release of the next round of the dreaded, dreadful Journal Impact Factors (JIFs). Editors are concerned, because the JIF directly impacts their journal, as it influences if researchers choose it to publish their research. JIF has a number of flaws, but one entirely outside an ...

Who Watches the Watchers

The rise in the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and associated resources over the last decade is leading to the end of the paper medical record and all the risks associated with the use of a paper chart. However, there has not been a concomitant creation of a systematic oversight body that is specifically charged with ensuring the public’s safety through the use of EHR knowledge resourc...

The Value of Detective Stories

On a recent Sunday morning, The Times-Picayune, a newspaper from New Orleans, carried news that two young people had been arrested for an arson death, that a jury had convicted a man of killing a waitress in a robbery, and that a 15-year-old escapee from a youth detention facility had been recaptured. Those three stories were among the six main stories making up the first two pages of the local...