The Transparent Eyeball

The Transparent Eyeball was a blog devoted to a collaborative study of Emerson and the innumerable circles of conversation in which he participated and in which we continue to find him.

Seventh Series

Introduction to Emerson and AI
Ralph Emerson and Self-Cultivation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Running Away, But Still Running in Circles
Emerson, Alcott, and Authorship: Transcendentalist Ideas in the Age of AI
Enlightened Machines?
Technically Speaking?
Reflections on Emerson and AI

Sixth Series

Ralph Emerson’s Relevance in a College of Business
Emerson and Journaling
In the Woods: Emerson and Cross Country Running
Radically Inclusive Classroom Practices: Two Student-Centered Methods of Teaching Emerson to Ungraduates

Fifth Series

Emerson and Race: A Provocation
Emerson’s Copula: Transcendental Theopoetics
Transcendentalism and The Black Atlantic

Fourth Series

‘I seem to have lost a beautiful estate’: Childhood and property in Emerson’s ‘Experience’
Get Health: Reading Emerson in Pandemic Times
Emersonian Sentimentalism and George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo

Third Series

Emerson Therapy
Emerson and Antaeus, the Broken Giant
“a cigar had uses”: Emerson as Advertising Icon

Second Series

Breathing Through Forms: The Influence of “The Poet” on the Poems of Dickinson
Between Self-Reliance and Responsibility: Rereading the Emersonian Sublime in an Age of Crisis
Emerson Epigraphs in Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
A Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

First Series

Legacies of Resistance: Emerson, Buddhism, and Richard Wright’s Pragmatist Poetics
“Brahma” Contains Multitudes: Hinduism’s Influence on Emerson
An Essay about Living from the Soul