...Curtis Marez Marez’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection,” which finds in Chavez’s store of graphics, photos, films, and videos from the 1940s to the 1990s evidence of farm workers’ appropriation of visual technologies to project social alternatives...

...Jeffrey Shandler Shandler’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List ; or, Reading a Digital Archive against the Grain.” Examining references to the 1993 film Schindler’s List in videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors at the USC Shoah...

...Steve Anderson Anderson’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Chaos and Control: The Critique of Computation in American Commercial Media (1950-1980),” which examines the critiques of computing culture posed by TV and movies during the mainframe computer age by looking closely...

...Jentery Sayers Sayers’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Making the Perfect Record.” This project unpacks the often ignored, pre-1940s history of magnetic recording, with particular attention to how—through an interweaving of print fiction, sound transduction, storage media...

...–1980)” (Scalar project), DOI 10.1215/00029831 -2370221. Scalar Project Author Statement: “Chaos and Control,” 815–16. Blum, Hester. Review: Elmer, On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sover- eignty in the New World, 591–93. Review: Levine, Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes...

...) come into close contact with theories of race, temporality, labor, and knowledge. More specifically, the six essays you hold in your hand in the print issue of the journal (or, perhaps more likely, are reading online as PDFs) and the four Scalar projects that reside on our website address...

... in their very form. If you are interested in submitting a more experimental piece, please contact the editors before submitting. Some production support may be available for these works, especially for work undertaken in the new authoring platform Scalar. Scalar is designed to make it easy for authors...

... pieces that use new media in their very form. If you are interested in submitting a more experimental piece, please contact the editors before submitting. Some production support may be available for these works, especially for work undertaken in the new authoring platform Scalar. Scalar...

... in their very form. If you are interested in submitting a more experimental piece, please contact the editors before submitting. Some production support may be available for these works, especially for work undertaken in the new authoring platform Scalar. Scalar is designed to make it easy for authors...

... Prize, awarded annu- ally by the Don D. Walker Prize Committee and the Western Literature Asso- ciation for the best essay published on western American literature in the previous year. Curtis Marez was awarded an honorable mention for “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection,” a Scalar project...

... corporations and public health to show how a simple act can be a deeply meaningful acknowledgement of interdependency, a gesture of care for self and one’s intimate circle but also for distant others and populations vulnerable to infection. A similar scalar logic is at work at the end of The Overstory , which...

.... Have you seen their faces? —Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric ( 2014 ) In the popular imagination, poverty is a site of negation, of invisibility, of absence. In a neoliberal order whose imagination orbits around the concepts of growth, accumulation, and expansion, at all scalar...

... to a single explanation for Hurstwood’s crime is not a flaw in the text but rather an attempt to account for the actions of his character in a more realistic fashion. His novel might therefore be seen to exemplify a “trans-scalar imaginary” that assists us in developing a fuller picture of reality.9...

... Gieseking ( 2018 ) and Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner ( 2012 ), who argue for a scalar framing of global-intimate. 16 Borrowing from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ( 2003 : 131), I suggest here that the focus on rising seas has become a particular paranoia of climate change discourse, “blotting out any...

.... To calibrate these scalar relationships, the novel pans out to the macrocosm—underlining cotton’s place in a tightly woven transnational network of capital flows and unprocessed materials—just as it zooms in on the micro, presenting a social and ecological condition wherein everything is reducible to cotton...

... and archipelagic configuration of space and human life that is of a piece with the planet. Janie’s nearest access to her antipodal and hypothetical island-space arrives through the novel’s dedication to the type of geographically scalar play that earlier permitted her to look at a mud-puddle and see...