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...Dean Young © 2015 Dean Young 2015 Dean Young Glorious Particles in the Atmosphere Aflame My dog loves being airborne. She leaps over the coffee table onto the couch. Never will we be sealed in the narcropolis again. Leaps when she infers a biscuit. A walk...

... on Walter Benjamin’s notion of the “aura” of a work of art or cultural artifact, it offers an atmospheric conception of history attending to the ways in which humans, nonhumans, artifacts, and nature interpenetrate one another. Furthermore, it points to the ways in which the language of archives, curators...

...Tobias Menely Considering examples from Benjamin, Marx, and Hobbes, “Anthropocene Air” reflects on the conceptual difficulty that the atmosphere, the Earth’s gaseous envelope, poses for a materialist account of history. Against the backdrop of the systemic condition definitive of the Anthropocene...

.... This article considers the use of the idea of a commons in water and atmosphere in the 2016 protest on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. It also contextualizes the concept of the commons in relation to the historical expropriation of land from native...

... technologies of observation, measure- ment, and modeling. We now understand the “environment” as a complex, evolving system whose past is only important insofar as it helps our computer models predict its future. Thanks to the techni- cal apparatuses we have sprinkled through the atmosphere and near...

... the atmosphere? When James Watt invented the steam engine? Or perhaps when our Neolithic ancestors took axes to trees to create forest clearings? In this context, it is worthwhile to reflect on the etymological origins of the term Anthropocene. As many observers have pointed out, the term seems...

... besiege the atmosphere, great precipitous toolkits, galaxy noises on the roof. Forget your plucky-helmet. Not even double hockey sticks can save you now. minnesota review 76 (2011) DOI 10.1215/0026 5667-1221957  © 2011 Olivia Valdes...

...Cody Ernst © 2016 Cody Ernst 2016 Cody Ernst If There Were a Song about This Car Ride it would start:  love didn’t exist yet  or:  love was but a child then, the winter I discovered self-destruction:  whiskey, stout beer, and cigar leaves muckied the atmosphere  I had a hopeless crush...

... To be saved? I say, rocket them homeward, through the incinerating mist of earth’s atmosphere. May their longing to be ethereal again Cremate the damage of gravity. May the space dust Of their pain dissipate into the gasping void. minnesota review 85 (2015) DOI 10.1215/00265667...

... in the reservoir of time. The grass bleeds silver, prisms of dew collapse at the risk of their translucent hearts. Birds cower in the Sydney sky, push into the horizon s viscose, that all too-still night like the wrong shoe. Atmospheric with wreckage, I sift through the junkyard s silver, ask the past for a moment...

... Imaginaries: The Antarctic Ozone Hole and the Isoline Tradition in the Atmospheric Sciences.” In Image Politics of Climate Change: Rendering Visible the Invisible , edited by Schneider Birgit Nocke Thomas , 29 – 53 . Berlin : Transcript . Grosz Elizabeth . 2005 . Time Travels...

... an official slogan of the Communist Party of the United States (CP) nor an aesthetic criterion of Communist critics, it pervaded the working atmosphere of Communist or fellow-traveling writers in the United States. Party leader Earl Browder told the second American Writers Congress in June 1937...

... Discourse and Its Impact on the Environmental Humanities The notion of the Anthropocene views humans as a dominant geo- physical force. The concept, first proposed by the atmospheric chem- ist Paul Crutzen and the biologist Eugene F. Stoermer in 2000, emphasizes “the central role of mankind...

... it really begins in the classroom with a demo- cratic atmosphere of mutual respect and mutual learning. As for writing and publishing, of course I hope my ideas might have an effect. I think of that not as activism in the direct sense, it’s an intellectual activism in a sense that you produce...

... eruption) or more or less “anthropogenic” (exponential accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere, the plastification of oceans, directed evolution, earth- quakes caused by hydraulic fracturing).2 Against mourning, which operates via the same illogics of accu- mulation that underwrite capitalism...

.... This paragraph emerges from a long conversation with Eli Thorkelson, a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Chicago who works on the overdetermined atmospheres of contemporary university life in the US and France, and who blogs on this topic at Decasia. ...

... and ignorance left their marks on the street: garbage, broken bottles, and bullet casings. A light drizzle made the atmosphere smell of the damp burnt wood of abandoned houses, bringing to life the tags spray-painted along the street, tags like G-Ward, Low-Life, Killer Mike. I understand now why young...

... that in this political atmosphere when Iran is on top of the news, “Why, they should grab your novels.” But what they really want is autobiography, nonfiction; the market wants a memoir. There are several memoirs of Iranian people from different groups—Reading Lolita in Tehran is one of them, Funny in Farsi...

... necessary for political action, Hardt writes, the basic facts of climate change for example, the increasing propor- tion of CO 2 in the atmosphere and its effects are highly scientific and abstract from our daily experiences. Projects of public pedagogy can help spread such scientific knowledge...

... content and community. 124 the minnesota review The story moves between moments of solitariness and the over- whelming elasticity of community. That is reflected in, and related to, the moments of walking. Sometimes to follow the trail of the feet is to have a sense of the atmosphere, of the volume...