...Soyica Diggs Colbert “‘When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead’: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World ” puts thing theory in conversation with theorizations of temporality, claiming that things rupture the subject/object binary by dislocating...

... and perform together as the Black Took Collective, practice what this article calls a poetics of thingification : a poetry that draws attention to language's capacity for reification in general and for racial objectification in particular. Drawing upon thing theory and recent scholarship on race and avant...

...Tracie Morris “Rakim's Performativity” considers the influence and relevance of pioneering Rapper Rakim's influential track “Follow the Leader” through the lens of J. L. Austin's theory of performativity presented in his philosophical work How to Do Things with Words . The author reflects...

... articulation of things. The ontological theory of language at issue here, with its concern for the problems of meaning and translation in particular and its methodological distance-in-nearness, entails a simultaneously concentrated and expansive allegorical experience of the world. Allegory brings out the word...

...Christian Thorne A wide-ranging interview with Philip Mirowski, in which he, among other things, clarifies his position on the critique of science, issues several challenges to the contemporary Left, and explains why his account of the Neoliberal Thought Collective is not a conspiracy theory...

... second” to propose theories of technology’s impact. These critics neglect to provide explanations of a social or political kind, a trend that appears to be related to the lesser importance accorded to intention. I show the value of giving social explanations and of differentiating between humans...

... is of seri- ous concern, for the varieties of “thing theory,” material culture, and eco- logical approaches to criticism appear to have been engaged in just such practices and must be written out for SR/OOO’s global critique to take hold. Like Meillassoux’s paradoxical human de- and recentering...

... with the dissertation, was drawing on the resources that seemed to me available through things called “theory.” I think that that continues to be so. There was a moment where it seemed highly desirable and important to talk about the controversies around theory, less so now. At the same time, I’m sure you’ve...

... of poetic creation, the place where time and the eternal negoti- ate their claims. A New Theory for American Poetry is very alive throughout to the stranger diagrams of order the world discovers to us, alive to the vari- ous things we mean by the environment, the surround, or mere space. It is about...

... for the productivity of literary form at the level of the line and for the neutralization and appropriation of that productivity across circuits of commodification, translation, and journalistic-scholarly “appreciation”? © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 poetics philosophy literary theory formalism...

... than fanaticism. The centerpiece of their philosophical theory was an account of the contents that are believed or are believable. To squeeze the most explanatory juice out of Menand’s fascinating and instructive story, we need to know some- thing about how an understanding of the act or attitude...

... them out to make them abso- lutely opposed the way Williams does only makes things worse, because epistemology is subject to being hijacked by politics when the faculty of aes- thetic judgment is ignored. We have multiple scientific theories, just as we have multiple translations of any artistic...

... feel hurt. 9. See M. H. Abrams, Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory, ed. Michael Fischer (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), esp. 113–­34 and 237–­363; and Donald E. Pease, “J. Hillis Miller: The Other Victorian at Yale,” in The Yale Critics: Decon- struction...

... at Beijing’s Tsinghua University and one of the more successful academic entrepre- neurs in contemporary China. According to this declaration, theory may be dead or dying in the United States with the right-wing capture of U.S. politics and culture, but it is alive and well in the PRC. In the utopic...

... in the relation between phenomenon and noumenon, and thereby to distinguish social theories that were formed out of individual/ society, society/state, and state/world paradigms. His argument is as fol- Wang Hui / Science, Culture, Knowledge  153 lows: (A) all things...

... Spencer to avoid ‘‘real men and real things’’ and concentrate ‘‘on a ‘mystical’ whole full of ‘metaphysical lay figures’ which corresponded to their theories but bore little relation to observable fact 3 Finding a resemblance between this critique and Schmoller’s rejection of the deductive method...

... else becomes clear there, however. At that point, the truth of things matters less than their formulatability. We can read off of Sloterdijk’s many experiments some of the good that distance as a technique of epigonal theory, his kind of cri- tique, “astral critique,” can do us, not least...

... don’t do the same kind of things he does. In recent years, I’ve been reading some short pieces by Louis Menand, who seems to have a similar spread of interests, and yet when I read any one piece of his, I feel it’s very unlike my voice. JJW: Both are New Yorker writers, although Menand...

... ideas and products of the creative mind 12 Benjamin emphasizes here the materiality of these noetically charged fragments, their availability to ordi- nary experience. Benjamin completed his pre-Marxist theory of things as y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 99 of 224...

... soberly to mirror the scatteredness of things, especially of 20. On the ‘‘nominalist’’ context for montage theory, see Theodor W. Adorno, Ästhe- tische Theorie (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1970), 231–34 (Stimmigkeit und Sinn, ‘‘Krise des...