...Margret Grebowicz This article takes its cue from Timothy Morton’s invitation to think all things in terms of radioactivity. Instead of focusing on objects, however, the author explores radiation in the imagination of animal desire in the nuclear dystopia. Her working hypothesis...

...Ann Ryles © 2015 Ann Ryles 2015 Ann Ryles Start with Desire Dr. Jerome Predicts Dr. Jerome is my oncologist and I check in with him every three months now that my treatment is over. If you’re like most people you probably hope you never have to meet an oncologist in your life...

...Ranjan Ghosh This article tries to develop a complicated relationship between the material-plastic, the desire principle, and its affective dimensions. It explores how plastic “touches” us multi-sensorially through its materiality and materialization. As ready-made, found, waste, abandoned...

... 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...

... sadomasochistic imagery, accoutrements and lifestyles. Recent films such as Secretary and The Piano Teacher (the latter based on Elfriede Jelinek's novel Die Klavierspielerin) tackle the topic of women's masochistic desires. Catherine Millet's recent best• seller The Sexual Life of Catherine M contains...

..., this noble unfaith can nei- ther feel nor trust love, so much does unfaith enlarge desire. And unfaith never allows desire any rest in any fidelity but, in the fear of not being loved enough, continually distrusts desire. So high is unfaith that it continually fears either that it does...

... in a tone that mixed consolation and flippancy. I said something like, “Look, we’re professionals here. Other people’s desire to diminish your motives for pursuing your work, which relies on knowing nothing about you and paying no attention to what you’re actually saying, can’t seriously...

... label. Young girls can sometimes know so much about what men want that they misinterpret these wants as their own desires. I was good at both falling in love with boys and showing them how to fall in love with me. If I could have lived perpetually in new loves, I would have. A mysterious, old...

... . Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire , translated by Ash Gabriel . New York : Verso Press . Lowe Lisa . 2015 . The Intimacies of Four Continents . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Robinson Cedric . 2000 . Black Marxism: The Making of the Black...

...: Neutralization and the Production of Utopian Discourse.” Diacritics 7 , no. 2 : 2 – 21 . ———. 1994 . The Seeds of Time . New York : Columbia University Press . ———. 2005 . Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions . London : Verso . ———. 2009...

... in the tradition of materialist critique à la Marx and Freud, seeks to “restore to today’s reductive reinscription of histori- cal reading its original focus on form.” Levinson distinguishes this type of formalism from what she calls “normative formalism,” a per- spective that desires to “bring back a sharp...

... an unbridgeable chasm, attempting to fulfill what Jonathan Culler calls an “impossible imperative” —​to bring the other into full, flesh- and-blood presence, to allow the other to speak back (1981, 146). This desire to “face” the other involves various forms of reckoning, includ- ing a confrontation...

... .” Atlantic , March 1 . https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/k2-last-problem-of-the-himalayas/554618/ . Grebowicz Margret . 2021 . “Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the World . London : Repeater . Hanna Julian . 2019 . The Manifesto Handbook: 95 Theses...

... discussion of recent scholarship—and repeats aspects of the old model of Marxist struggle that precedes "late-capitalism." The price of representation (identity politics) is that one then becomes the agent of the state ("representation" 230). Desire to support the state and desire to destroy...

... democracy by force back to Strauss’s ideas, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq indicate a philosopher-king’s desire to create an ideal demos from above. Ironically, Strauss himself cautioned against applying political philosophy directly to public policy, not out of modesty, but because he...

... Gil . London : Routledge . Mauss Marcel . 2003 . On Prayer . Translated by Leslie Susan . New York : Durkheim/Berghahn . Michaud Ginette . 2013 . “Prier apres la prière.” In Cosa volante: Le désir des arts dans la pensée de Jean-Luc Nancy , 345 – 77 . Paris...

... spirit ricocheting away. Such cuts run in our family , I tell my lover, less a wound, more just a tendency for things to get in. Suppose my desire is someone else s disaster. What we have in common is our biggest secret. Once, I scraped moss off a mountainside and carried it home. If I am to be swollen...

....” Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Mavis’s brief moment of clarity would be that, even in articulating this accurate observation, she still preserves a detachment from any desire to be happy. Her per- ception of personal difficulty in achieving the state of “being happy” does not compel her...

... the categories of scientific description.” I want to look “at and into” a vulture, too —​this vulture in particular. But I’ve always interpreted this sentence as Abbey’s desire not to anthropomor- phize, which is something I struggle with to the point of frustration. When I teach rhetoric and writing...