... by unexpected encounters with ideas, arguments, and artworks. My defense of misreading as a creative act, however, asks for a broader description of contingency that includes accidents, misprisions, and fortuitous faults in memory generating flights of fancy and unbidden and unexpected imaginative analogies...

...Leo Parascondola Leo Parascondola Crossing the Remedial Bridge: Political Economy, Contingent Labor, and Differentiation Strategies in Higher Education This essay analyzes the creation of a particular type of adult literacy education, the college preparation "bridge...

.... O’Reilly’s attempt was far more public (and destructive), but Andrews’s political project has remained confined to a small contingent of scholars. This article reexamines Andrews’s claim that the only effective means of political resistance can come from an experimental poetic practice that challenges...

...; and her most recent work on epistemology and twentieth-century science studies. Exchanges during the interview also touch on Smith’s dismay at the increasing prominence of marketability as a concern of the academy; her response to anxieties over relativism occasioned by her book Contingencies of Value...

... focus more on the role of contingent labor as leaders in the movement for class- based solidarity. Of all the responses to the university’s decline, the movement to unionize graduate and adjunct employees, which dates back to the postwar period, most explicitly frames...

... that sets you on a life path you might not otherwise have chosen. But these are contingent effects, and as contingent effects they cannot be designed and shouldn’t be aimed at. (It’s not a good use of your time to aim at results you have only a random chance...

... contingent faculty labor force there. Per-student expenditures are much lower in the community colleges compared to four year public colleges and universities, and this is generally seen as one reason why both Schwarzenegger and Bush have been promoting programs directing more students into the two...

... that it is a “curious thing about documents: you can’t see them if you don’t look at them; but you also can’t see them if you look only at them, ignoring the surroundings in which they operate” (2001, 29). Documentation needs to be understood as contextually contingent on its immediate environment, including...

.../contingency of the expressions and forms of conceptions as real things. From the materialist investigations that coalesced through and in the merger of the sciences with humanities research (notably in Bergson 2004; Haraway 1988, 1991, 1997; Barad 2007; Lévy-Leblond 1976, 1999; Plotnitsky 2006...

... of reduced support for solid, analytic education. Eighteen years ago Mary G. Edwards published “The Decline of the American Professoriate, 1970-1990,” in which she outlined the all-too-familiar signposts: stagnant wages; the rise in contingent labor and deterioration...

... a singularity that contributes to the imaginary of a life experience. This waking up to a historical moment survives in a possibility and story that does not have an ostensible significance to it. It is a mystification of a moment that is more about a secret index and emergence than about contingency...

... the disparities between individual works and social structures in their eagerness to nail down political meanings. The model of articulation, well known in cultural if not in literary studies, redeems such trespasses by allowing us to do justice to the contingency, mutability, and many-sidedness...

... of decision's renewal. This phenomenon, along with the curtailed temporalities that it engenders, is crystallized, though in a different register, in Beckett's 1981 play for television, Quad . © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 neoliberalism post-Fordism environmental power contingent labor liquidity...

..., contingency, threat, alterity, incommensurability, and so on. At the same time, such exchanges implied by precarious rela- tionality suggest a complex realm of promises, assurances, guaran- tees, expectations, investments, anticipation, projections, fantasies, optimism, faith, desire, enthusiasm, belief...

... an observation that makes it possible to understand mimetic repetition as contingent and aleatoric in nature. In his essay “The Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounter,” Louis Althusser begins with the rain that falls. He takes up Nicolas de Malebranche’s question as to why the rain...

... counterparts. Schuster and Finkelstein note that the American faculty has now become “a majority contingent workforce” (323). Future studies in this vein would do well to factor the contingent into their calculations. At some institutions, contingent instructors comprise...

... by this kind of labor system for six years now, my credo takes the form of a proposal for working against it. So this essay is an argument for developing, as a counterpart to the class consciousness of the contingent (grad or adjunct) instructor, a graduate student “pack consciousness”—a mode...

... is contingently embedded in historical structures and is the “affair of an ever-vigilant opportunism” (2010). Returning to the categories of impulse and program, he (per- haps counterintuitively) identifies the first with the economic and the second with the political. This distinction allows him...

... contingent workforce” (323). Future studies in this vein would do well to factor the contingent into their calculations. At some institutions, contingent instructors comprise the preponderance of the teaching force. One such university is NYU, whose labor dynamics are treated at length...

... to think of their salaries after tenure as something similar to a pension. After all, in some fields, many folks will not receive tenure until they’ve been working for low wages for twenty years or more: a dozen years to get the degree, another three to four years serving contingently...