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... of Becoming . Cambridge : Polity . ———. 2010 . “The Politics of ‘Life Itself.” In New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics , edited by Coole Diana Frost Samantha , 201 e– 18 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Grevsmühl Sebastian . 2014 . “The Creation of Global...

... of methods, frameworks, and feedback systems in which projects emerge out of process and evolve from within communities and with people, rather than being made for or about them. Co-creation, we contend, offers a hands-on heuristic to explore the expressive capacities and possible forms of agency in systems...

... subjects and more-than-human agencies that implicate sociocultural factors and ecodegradation as inherent actors in pandemic events. The release of Ando and Miyaji’s pandemic narrative The Deer King during the COVID-19 pandemic prompts serious consideration of the ways narratives intra-act with material...

... of these. In the words of Karen Barad, this turn inquired as to why meaning, history, and truth are assigned to language only, whereas the movements of materiality are given less prominence: “How did language come to be more trustworthy than matter? Why are language and culture granted their own agency and historicity...

... that these texts illuminate the intensified problem of anthropocentrism under ecological crisis, pointing, via the mediating work of poetic language, to the ways in which this anthropogenic agency extends into and reshapes nonhuman forms. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014 Works Cited Chakrabarty Dipesh...

...Elizabeth Adan; Benjamin Bateman This introduction to the special focus section, “Emergent Precarities and Lateral Aesthetics,” takes the recent work of Lauren Berlant and Judith Butler as its point of departure to map the parameters of lateral agency and precarity as a means of exploring what...

...), plot (that hardly accretes), and agency (which is hardly efficacious) — this essay examines how contemporary accounts of economic and affective precarity theorize the subject's (compromised) relationship to choice. Turning attention to the institution of the zero-hour contract and to Michel Foucault's...

...Jennifer Cotter New materialism claims to offer a postanthropocentric advance over historical materialism by displacing human labor with the “vital agency” of all matter: from humans to objects and machines. By equating people with the objects they produce and positing the autopoiesis of things...

... political desire become post political, and what is theory doing to agency by embracing ambiguity as a principle, or holding up indecisionism as a critical act? © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Works Cited Berardinelli Alfonso . 2001 . Stili dell’estremismo (The Extremist Style) . Rome...

...), and varieties of Eurenglish (various European contexts). This second view opens avenues of agency and ownership unavailable when global standardized English is imposed as an ideal. The existing linguistics hierarchy of native English speakers over nonnative speakers breaks down. This article explores the native...

... of the two films indicates that aӽliation across races must be based on a shared understanding of circumstances. White-savior motifs may assuage white audiences, but they deny agency to people of color. Copyright © 2018 Virginia Tech 2018 working class solidarity white savior Clint Eastwood...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Jane Bennett discusses her highly influential notion of vibrant matter, which is her term for the idea that the locus of agency is always a human/nonhuman assemblage. In other words, there is an impetus to action in humans and animals, but the impetuses of “things...

... for grasping its global agency. The Novel at the World Scale . (on Palumbo-Liu David , Robbins Bruce , and Tanoukhi Nirvana ., eds., Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture [2011]; Jon Hegglund, World Views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction [2012...

... . 2014 . “ Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene .” New Literary History 45 ( 1 ): 1 – 18 . LeMenager Stephanie . 2014 . Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century . New York : Oxford University Press . LeMenager Stephanie Shewry Theresa Hiltner Ken...

... elaborations of the complex social relations between an individual’s identity (or subjectivity) and agency, a concept that encompasses the broader effects of human as well as nonhuman social actors. Situating subjectivity as a very specific and limiting story of agency, one...

... migration from the global South often foreground the victim status of migrants, the contributions to this special focus section recover agency. Here, agency does not lie in the choice to move or stay, since these choices are always already dictated by hegemonic processes beyond the control of the migrants...

... seem to distance ourselves from it, and within the space that opens up, a host of immaterial things seems to emerge: language, consciousness, subjectivity, agency, mind, soul; also imagi- nation, emotions, values, meaning, and so on” (1–2). When thinking about information, there appears a kind...

... above us, shedding its glass & plastic skin, but the hard part is praying to be made of that same permanence. Nothing here leaves on its own. Discolors, only wilts at the name; structures intact. What had no agency still has no agency & with it no death. I don t remember the name of the man I hurt. I...

... of agency, as his writing ceaselessly points out, is precisely the one rubbed- out of US history. In The Invention of the White Race, Ted wrote about what he called an "erased" sense of the "common." This took the form, in the early-modern age, of a collectivity of pre-racialized...

....” Maintaining the integrity of their measured closenesses (identifications), accountabilities to mark- ing bodies (performances), and agencies (multiple material-spatialized minnesota review 88 (2017) DOI 10.1215/00265667-3787402  © 2017 Virginia Tech...