...Anna Ioanes In the wake of the linguistic turn, scholars have turned to affect and to aesthetics to account for textual experiences that exceed critical frameworks of representation and critique. Bringing formalist analysis and affect theory to bear on one another, recent works of literary, art...

.... Jameson’s affective logic, which Mark Fisher (2010) and others celebrate in their reviews of Jameson’s “dialectical” appreciation of Wal-Mart (Brown 2009; Carp 2014; Cole 2014; Tally 2014), has its basis in Antonio Negri’s theory of immaterial labor and its parallels in the work-valorization theory...

...: Princeton University Press. Foley, Barbara. 2010. Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’sInvisible Man. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Gregg, Melissa, and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds. 2010. The Affect Theory Reader. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Grover...

... . “ The Object as Catalyst: The Enigmatic Mask .” Arteidolia , May . www.arteidolia.com/the-object-as-catalyst-the-enigmatic-mask/ . Best Susan . 2007 . “ Rethinking Visual Pleasure Aesthetics and Affect .” Theory and Psychology 17 , no. 4 : 505 – 14 . Bourriaud Nicolas . 2009...

... of a 62 the minnesota review political and national identification, and the utter disintegration of it as a form of violence, all happening together on the page. Watson  More recently, theories of trauma and affect have come into prominence. Psychoanalysis plays a key role in at least some...

.... With the growing popularity of Jacques Rancière’s work in the United States,1 Alain Badiou’s Handbook of Inaesthetics (2005), and the development of various strands of affect theory, 2 aesthetics has emerged as a relevant concern across a wide range of fields. As a recent exchange in New Literary History...

....” Starting in the early 1990s, however, a deep shift occurred in the way the body was interpreted. A new movement cast tremendous doubt on the hegemony of language and instead advocated a performative, pictorial, and affective approach — the so-called material turn — which encompassed all...

... it is and to necessarily dwell in the utopian possibilities opened up by this particular queer commons. Copyright © 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 ACT-UP queer theory commons utopia protest Works Cited Bradway Tyler . 2017 . Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading . New...

... . Jennifer Cotter New Materialism and the Labor Theory of Value At a historical moment in which more areas and levels of existence and life are being subordinated to global commodity production and exchange and are subject to the exigencies of economic and ecological crisis, “new materialism” has...

...Elizabeth de Freitas This work of speculative fiction and commentary describes a laboratory focused on human sense and affect. The laboratory is alive with computational capacity, recursively elaborating and generating data. The very notion of recording data is radically reconceived through...

... modus operandi. This volume will be vital for scholars and readers, from speculative/new realisms through new materialisms, posthumanism/posthumanist feminisms, and object-oriented philosophy and ontology (OOP/OOO) down to the speculative turn’s related contemporary gestures (nonhuman/ affect...

... to Big History . Berkeley : University of California Press . Clark Timothy . 2012a . “ Deconstruction in the Anthropocene .” Oxford Literary Review 43 ( 2 ): v – vi . ———. 2012b . “ Derangements of Scale .” In Telemorphosis: Theory in the Age of Climate Change , vol. 1 , edited...

.... There is, of course, an obvious exception to this drive toward specialization. In the last few decades the idea of theory has come to stand for an interest in debating theoretical, interpretative, and methodological issues that affect all forms of scholarship, not just some. To define...

... organizing feminist separatism and safer space posthumanism Works Cited Ahmed Sara . 2004 . “Affective Economies.” Social Text 22 , no. 2 : 117 – 39 . ———. 2008 . “Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the ‘New Materialism...

... of the connection between science, technology, and labor in the Grundrisse , I argue that the dominant readings of the “ludo economy” of video games work to ideologically obscure a revolutionary critique of digital capitalism based upon the labor theory of value. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 video games...

... diverse theoretical perspectives and awakens a spectrum of affects, attitudes, and values. The various conceptualizations of the body from the second half of the twentieth century till today disclose major lines of conflict, zones of dissent, and proximity in contempo- rary theory. The body may...

... with Jane Bennett Jane Bennett’s book Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press, 2010) has sparked debates across the disci- plines, from political science and human geography to cultural stud- ies and science studies. Bennett provocatively argues that political theory...

... Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Berlant, Lauren, and Lee Edelman, eds. 2014. Sex, or The Unbearable. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Brinkema, Eugenie. 2014. The Forms of the Affects. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Campbell, Timothy C., and Adam Sitze, eds...

...Janell Watson In this interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith, known for her important contributions to literary theory and for an unusual interdisciplinary career, interviewer Janell Watson gives a brief account of Smith’s early interests in philosophy and science, her career as a teacher...

.... —Emmanuel Goldstein The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism The militaristic moral and political economy of Oceania in Orwell's 1984 is a product of totalitarianism. It also describes, some argue, the "post-9- 11" era and the "Global War on Terror" (GWT...