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Jennifer lives in Baltimore with her spouse, physicist Sean M. Carroll, and their two cats, Ariel and Caliban.
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Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025
That book, Caliban and the Witch, traces the emergence of witch hunts throughout medieval Western Europe amid the transition from serfdom to proto-capitalism.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
Enlarge / Ariel and Caliban learned as kittens that scratching posts were fair game for their natural claw-sharpening instincts.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 July 2024
The plot, which encompasses a magic shipwreck, two revolutionary subplots (one involving a half-human creature named Caliban), and a love story out of a fairy tale, springs from a medium of pure imagination.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
But as one of us (Federici) has argued in her 2004 book Caliban and the Witch and subsequent publications, what sustained periods of witch-hunting have in common, across time, space and culture, is a backdrop of social and economic dislocation.
—Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
And Caliban, who wished Prospero might be stricken with the red plague for teaching him to speak correct English, never told anything but the truth, presumably not knowing how to.
—Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
Without human intervention, the situation can escalate into truly antagonistic behavior on the part of the cat (Ariel) who is disinclined to continue playing—growling, hissing, running away—with the other cat (Caliban) in hot pursuit, thinking this is all still part of their game.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023
Yet Fitzgerald identifies a contradiction: Prospero will inform, Ariel will entertain, but Caliban is to be educated—two active figures and one passive.
—Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
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Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025
That book, Caliban and the Witch, traces the emergence of witch hunts throughout medieval Western Europe amid the transition from serfdom to proto-capitalism.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
Enlarge / Ariel and Caliban learned as kittens that scratching posts were fair game for their natural claw-sharpening instincts.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 July 2024
The plot, which encompasses a magic shipwreck, two revolutionary subplots (one involving a half-human creature named Caliban), and a love story out of a fairy tale, springs from a medium of pure imagination.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
But as one of us (Federici) has argued in her 2004 book Caliban and the Witch and subsequent publications, what sustained periods of witch-hunting have in common, across time, space and culture, is a backdrop of social and economic dislocation.
—Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
And Caliban, who wished Prospero might be stricken with the red plague for teaching him to speak correct English, never told anything but the truth, presumably not knowing how to.
—Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
Without human intervention, the situation can escalate into truly antagonistic behavior on the part of the cat (Ariel) who is disinclined to continue playing—growling, hissing, running away—with the other cat (Caliban) in hot pursuit, thinking this is all still part of their game.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023
Yet Fitzgerald identifies a contradiction: Prospero will inform, Ariel will entertain, but Caliban is to be educated—two active figures and one passive.
—Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
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“Caliban.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Caliban. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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