...D. Vance Smith This article examines the various limits of knowledge in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale as a critique of finitude in object-oriented philosophy and speculative realism. The phrase “death shall be dead” is the form of the receding limits that emerge when finitude is revoked, the lack of...

... Victorian Age . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1987 . John Miller Death, Display, and Companionship in Animal Studies (on Donna J. Haraway’s When Species Meet [Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008]; Kurt Koenigsberger’s The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and...

...Shen Haobo © 2017 Liang Yujing 2017 Shen Haobo Translated from the Chinese by Liang Yujing The Death Issue in Our Place Our place is a vast countryside where crops, men and women grow as well as their livestock. In our place, many women commit suicide. Some...

...Laura Wetherington © 2013 Laura Wetherington 2013 Laura Wetherington To death, as it is a place, after Ghérasim Luca like living underwater with           an open umbrella, like some kind of caesarian,           caesura, or anti-breath, or like the musical chairs of bodies...

...Young Hoon Oh; Margret Grebowicz A Sherpa laughed off his colleague’s death, stunning a Korean teammate on Mt. Everest. In the face of their friends’ deaths, Korean and Sherpa mountaineers behave quite distinctively from each other. Based on anthropological research on Sherpa and Korean...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Jacqueline Stevens discusses her career and her writings in the field of political theory. Her theories about birth, death, and the state guide her as she boldly challenges patriarchal appeals to genetics and heredity in the politics of immigration, wealth...

...Herschel Farbman Socrates haunts apologies for the humanities, and the ghost is not entirely benevolent. This essay emphasizes the dangers he represents, not because it is any more possible to banish Socrates in death than it was in life, but in order to bring his great lucidity about the dangers...

... convergence of the values of performance, speed, and eӽciency, in perfect compliance with neoliberal fantasies of the individual who overcomes adversity as well as with biopower’s demand for docile bodies. This essay explores the death of top speed climber Ueli Steck as a site for rethinking the Anthropocene...

... and incarnational theology. Ranging from the newly fabricated corpus of the Talmud institutionalized by Rabbi Rashi of Troyes (1040-1105) to the Corpus Iuris Canonicis , confected among Christian schoolmen in the generation after Rashi’s death, to the composition of the first liturgy for the new feast...

... made the abject giggle with the possibility of swift death. And I’d poke the possibility. And I’d poke the bump like it was a cat’s face. Poke. Poke. And I’d poke the cat’s face until I started crying in my feminist materialism class while we were talking about death por- nography. And rainbows...

... Haven, a headline reads “Skeleton Found In Upended Tree on Green.” With pictures of somebody’s skull in the root ball, Death Investigator down in the pit fetching bones. Witnesses at the muddy scene offer their views: dead man trying to tell a tale, says one. The dog walker...

...Lawrence Eby © 2015 Lawrence Eby 2015 Lawrence Eby There Are No Simple Truths It’s all half-smiles and psycho cats in the basement of our future tense selves on a death bed, saying I’m so fucking scared, and no one around understands unless they’ve seen...

..., which is abruptly right and good, and feels honest, which is the best part. In 1987, Olympia Dukakis asked, Why do men chase women? and she wanted the truth. The answer was always fear of death. But when I dance for you I am not afraid, and you tell me I’m the hottest...

... still the cartel’s smallest employee.   But no one can question your devotion, no scale can gauge your loyalty since your contract— which you fulfill entirely—calls for your death. Never mind that others died to get you this far.   Farmhouses have been burned to the...

... and saved them from the dentures, when death was too young to sleep soundly, and life was too old to shine shoes? I mean there was a barbershop in the oldest part of town where the men had no hair, and the women slept alone. There was a dress shop for polka dots, and a...

... Fiedler Reintroduces Himself.” New York Times 23 May 1971 : BR2 . ---. Love and Death in the American Novel . 2nd ed. New York : Stein & Day , 1966 . ---. “Our Country and Our Culture.” Symposium . Partisan Review 19 . 3 ( 1952 ): 282 - 326 . ---. “Poetry Chronicle.” Rev...

... through the city’s magic mirrors the earth snake’s eyes peering in and out. Not the immaculate Mind purified of death, but the blessing of skin, scale, fur and feather, breath and pulse, the old blood, the code kept and spoken from the first cell saying trilobite, chameleon...