...), 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...

... seats. Watched another show. My sister gave him her number she d make the appointment, the follow-up. Refuting argument: Wanted out. Wanted none of it. None of this ever happened. [ ] To wake and have no memory [ ] Locked away without a way. [ ] If I didn t make the choice but it was the right choice...

... at the previous job (this time the school contributed a figure equal to 15% of my salary). But starting in 1988 things at TIAA-CREF began to change more and more tellingly over the next two decades. In 1988 a new choice was added to the earlier two—the CREF Money Market Account. In 1990...

... to the hamburgers they can buy for a buck apiece. A simple but crucial point emerges: in the US today, many people do not have the time nor money to make “healthy choices” when it comes to the food they eat. Food is a function of social class. Pushing further via Pollan, Kenner uses...

... that adds up to meaning. But sometimes, I feel like my life is happening to me, and I want to let it all run on until I am traveling elsewhere, riding some other road as well as this one. Choices, you say when you disapprove of somebody else s, so sure the way is clear. What role do I play for you now...

.... Bousquet I went to CUNY because I wasn’t going to leave New York and CUNY gave me a massive recruitment fellowship. There are three choices in New York, CUNY, NYU, and Columbia, and I had philosophical differences with the English department at NYU at the time...

... of cautions: don’t confuse social media with material, on- the-ground activism; the Internet may be decentered, but it is not an egalitarian space; beware of victim politics; don’t confuse micropoli- tics with political action; don’t be so afraid of power; don’t confuse politics with consumer choice...

...-lengthening industrial food chain, Pollan emphasizes, has attenuated the relationship between producer and consumer, undermining trust and accountability and giving rise to widespread confusion over everyday food choices—something only exacerbated by the decline...

...; of the “Aus- tintatious Babe” in Austin, Texas, who confronted supporters of open- carry gun laws by bearing her breasts; as well of the FEMEN and others (65–66). Politically speaking, Alaimo seeks to highlight the causes and material consequences of our environmental choices. She quotes Gert...

... be for beings like us, condemned either way to fall into the bottomless pit? —​Nietzsche would ask. This question, however, bespeaks a deeply modern and monotheistic notion of fate as determinism: fate involving neither choice nor responsibility on the part of the agent —​something that is not tragic...

... of a poem as directed toward the human, toward the “activities” of the reader who receives and inter- prets? As Stewart writes in The Poet’s Freedom, “[Artworks] are a record of all the choices made as they came to be, yet they become the reposi- tory of all the possible meanings with which they can...

... with their savings. Maybe what I did isn’t so bad, but as it’s mine, it feels worse. The morning sun casts a shadow of bars across our faces. In some ways, life is easier here. Our choices, gone —​but it’s hard to decide, to choose to be loving day by day, step...

...Allison Berry © 2015 Allison Berry 2015 Allison Berry The Body Is Not Ekphrastic One in four Americans lives within three miles of a toxic waste dump. The body asks how far is far enough. Self-immolation seems the only sane choice, the body transubstantiated...

... 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...

... in charge has me in mind. But the gun misfires in the woods, and someone’s father topples into the creek bed. A friend is erased in the fire on the interstate. Sooner or later, each of us will have no choice in the matter. Perhaps this was the real cause of Achilles’s rage: how the world was rendered...

..., and puppet governments.  Judges, with pistols pressed against their temples, have been given choices.  Cops have been handed envelopes in alleys. From the outside, humanity must look totally depraved.  But even in death, you’re trying to teach us something about how...

... was a new word. The movement of Eve’s mouth pressing into her first apple was an entire sentence: Thank you for choice. Every flick of Leonardo’s painting hand said I am awed to be alive. The inward pull of Gandhi’s hungry flesh was courage. My daughter Sarah...

...Jamaal May © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Jamaal May The Man Who Paints Mountains and Helicopters for Rodney Denne Not the coin and not the thumb. Not even the palm it smacks down on, heads up. You are not the choice, no matter what it looks like today...

... that “gives us our best choice of living in peace with other Americans—and with people in the rest of the world” (4). McGowan’s optimism regarding the potential of liberalism is a nice reprieve from the cynicism by which the political is often evoked. Instead of raising another...

...John Manuel Arias © 2021 John Manuel Arias 2021 John Manuel Arias V I L L A I N T I N A S W I TC H E S F ROM C OM PL E R A TO G E N VOYA TO BI K TA RV Y I watch this changing world and think how lucky we are to have a choice / in how we meet our end This human race is a sweet virus...