...Val Britton Copyright © 2014 Regents of the University of Colorado 2014 PORTFOLIO: MAP ARTISTS 117 Val B r itto n Collapsible City / Worldscape II M y im m ersive, collaged works on paper draw on the language o f maps. Initially, I began this body o f w ork as a way to connect to m y father...

... that exceeds both the linguistic of the literary and the visual of the artistic, drawing on a multiplicity of sources, both historical and contemporary, visual and textual, oral and aural, in her mapping of California’s land and history. The Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón collapses precolonial, colonial...

... that the many collapses that have separated us, sped us on our lonely trajectories, might collapse us again into a radical proximity, pluralities and alterities of the as-yet-unknown. Maybe reading to the end of this world means opening the book of the next one, and maybe that book is already here, in ruins...

.... The wording also carries the not-very-hidden undertone that Richards moves to screen Brently from seeing Louise s collapse.7 Yet Chopin does n o t clarify the action further. The reader cannot be certain that Louise sees Brently s return. Any interpretation that puts the disappointment and shock brought...

... that allows for the articulation of traumatized grief that cannot elsewhere be spoken. The two essays in this section, while concerned with the traumatizing impact of large-scale disasters (civil war, economic collapse), suggest that one must focalize that impact more carefully by analyzing it within...

... analyzes how Romero translates individual trauma (slow, process-based, unrecognized) into collective trauma (sudden, event-based, recognized) through a vocabulary of horror. 2 In Martin , the gradual economic and social decline of Braddock, Pennsylvania, in the wake of its collapsing steel industry...

... and as such is undergone. Because form s accelerated suffer binarism. They undergo. They collapse. As a frame relay cloud m ight make the link. It could be a sky. It could be a node. It could be the entire system on fire. Because the m om ent carries a signal into itself. He dons the beauty of the waves, so, so. English...

... be simply to collapse existing categories in a new and interesting way. In Victor Shklovsky’s terminology, it can “defamiliarize” those categories, just like poetic language “makes strange” that speech which is mundane and ordinary. Insofar as all new words and methods can play this defamiliarizing role...

... sensitivities,” Romance ’s reception at the collapse of this past/present border is best understood by what Lisa Lowe calls a “past conditional temporality,” the “what could have been” in which “it is possible to conceive the past, not as fixed or settled” but as “a space of reckoning that allows us to revisit...

... change in point of view collapses the consciousness of existence ne èneken, above, into a single actor. She carries not only the entire social and relational matrix of kahwatsire and kentyohkwa , the larger human population of the place, but also the biological requirements, sense memory, expectations...

... into full view when the famous writer Junot Díaz shared his experience as a survivor of rape and confessed to actions that, while not criminal, damaged the dignity of numerous women (his former partners). Díaz’s confession collapsed the perpetrator and the victim into a single person, showing how...

... marks the spot, it marks here the political refusal to mean anything whatsoever. Instead, the nagging insistence of the x to collapse the universal into the particular is met with histories of dispossession to only yield a resounding politics of negativity—there is no liberal incorporation here...

..., then, the sym bolic center of the station collapses the individual surveyor's bodily position w ith that of the in stru m en t and the land he is standing on. The surveyor is conflated w ith , even becomes, the [the m ark o f the surveyor's position on the plat] he is, we m ig ht say, the point, or the eye...

... of the novel, states that Lowry was “unable to see the irony” (336). It is a double irony, given that Lowry applies to Area X what is, in The Coming Insurrection , a description of the human world that must be allowed to collapse. Engaging with these radical solutions suggests that instead...

.... W hat have featured are I n d i a n s . 14 Further, the phrase as found in the initial Folio, base Iudean (Judean), simply will not scan properly, whereas Indian' would have been so easily collapsed to sound like Injun (as in America, even then, too). Notice the accompanying term Medicinable...

... and demand justice for the poor men, women, and children of Kashmir, who bear the direct and the most brutal brunt of turmoil. Yet the majority of the recent debates on the economic crisis in Kashmir have revolved around internet shutdowns. We know that the economic collapse is an incessant and direct result...

.... As borders collapse the certainty of sovereignty and the determinacy of the juridical order, the meaning and purpose of law face internal and exter­ nal challenge.To understand what this means and whether it matters, whether jurisdiction­ al questions make a difference, requires a note of historical caution...

..., the poetry of Sean Bonney, a Marxist UK poet whose work, Baudelaire in English , she characterizes as an “uncannily alert concrete translation palimpsesting . . . Les Fleurs du Mal onto the psychogeography of [his] London” of 2008, a site of “hyperbolic, macrocosmic collapse.” In McSweeney’s work, we see...

.... Fully aware of the contingent value o f poetic work(s), as well as the libidinal (pleasure) and sacrificial (labor) expenditures involved in producing writing, Byron finds himself equally contem ptu­ ous of bourgeois exchange and o f aristocratic leisure and its attendant ennui. Collapsing...

... and reconstitutes. Yes, it lo o k s like I hover, and the hovering, I know, suggests a discom fiting eagerness. Malevolence. W hy is that? I haven't killed a thing. If the waiting seems untoward, it may be confirm ing som ething too real, too true: all the parts that slip from sight, can't be easily had, collapse...