... as a world-making activity. Beginning with the first of these approaches, the essay identifies a renewed interest in world-systems theory and Immanuel Wallerstein’s thought, in part as a corrective to theories of alternative modernities. It then looks at recent books by Jon Hegglund, John Marx, and Elizabeth...

... for Teaching and Research on Women, Scott participated in a feminist theory reading group with scholars such as Naomi Schor and Elizabeth Weed. Her seminal essay, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” reflects this encounter with theory. At first her strongest theoretical influence was Michel...

...Monika Rogowska-Stangret This essay sketches cartographies of new materialism with reference to theoretical dynamics and transformations of the category of the body. By tracing interconnections between concepts of corporeality coined by Elizabeth Grosz, transcorporeality developed by Stacy Alaimo...

...Elizabeth Mazzolini Comparing the coverage of three recent drug epidemics, the author argues that representations of drug users and producers indicate crises regarding the location of power. Crack in the 1980s and 1990s was seen to exist among users run amok in abandoned inner cities...

...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work...

...Elizabeth Marian Charles Elizabeth Marian Charles Checklists for the Apocalypse I am making a grilled cheese sandwich when my stepfather asks me to marry him. I have just turned to grab a plate from the cupboard when I see him down on one knee next to the ratty kitchen mat. He is look- ing up...

...Elizabeth Eslami © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Elizabeth Eslami Hibernators After having enough of the world, of parties and taxes and automobiles, of parents and work and airplanes, the guy and the girl decided to hibernate. They were in love, which meant sometimes...

...Brett Elizabeth Jenkins © 2015 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins 2015 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Monologue during Demon Possession Let’s just think about this for a second. Shut up! Just let me think. Okay, make a list of the embarrassing stuff you might want me to get rid of if things go south...

...Brett Elizabeth Jenkins © 2015 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins 2015 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Hangover Poem the huzz of the radio this whole place smells like asses inside of a foot inside of my skull just below my epidermis a pricking fuzz shimmies...

...Elizabeth Adan; Benjamin Bateman This introduction to the special focus section, “Emergent Precarities and Lateral Aesthetics,” takes the recent work of Lauren Berlant and Judith Butler as its point of departure to map the parameters of lateral agency and precarity as a means of exploring what...

...Elizabeth O'Brien © 2016 Elizabeth O'Brien 2016 Elizabeth O’Brien Thérèseon a Bench Seat, 1939 She sticks like a childhood memory or a scab sticks to me. She swizzles her legs, like straws with oscillating stripes, cherry red, she wants...

...Elizabeth de Freitas This work of speculative fiction and commentary describes a laboratory focused on human sense and affect. The laboratory is alive with computational capacity, recursively elaborating and generating data. The very notion of recording data is radically reconceived through...

... t bother me. Dr. Glass is in most mornings, but he leaves with a group of students armed with trowels. One girl, pale haired and named Elizabeth, stays behind and sits with me until they return late in the afternoon. She talks to me like I m a real person. I suppose I was, once. She gets sun rash...

...: Routledge, 2005. English, James F. The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2005. 212 the minnesota review Ferm, Elizabeth Byrne. Freedom in Education. Factory School, 2005. Ferretter, Luke. Louis Althusser. London...

... Attwell David . 2006 . “The Life and Times of Elizabeth Costello: J. M. Coetzee and the Public Sphere.” In J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual , edited by Poyner Jane , 25 – 41 . Athens : Ohio University Press . Best Stephen Marcus Sharon . 2009 . “Surface...

...: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press . Bowen Elizabeth . 1945 . English Novelists . London : William Collins . Bowen Elizabeth . (1931) 2012 . The Hotel, with a new foreword by Maud Ellmann . Chicago : Chicago...

... appeared in Callaloo, Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review, The Sun, Kweli, Break- water Review, Matter Monthly, and elsewhere. He is currently working on full-length book of poetry titled Get Funky. Elizabeth Marian Charles is a recent graduate of the Arizona State University MFA program. Her work has...

.... Brett Elizabeth Jenkins teaches English at the University of St. Thomas. She is the author of the chapbooks Ether/Ore (2012) and Oh No Everything (2015). Her poems also can be found in Beloit Poetry Journal, Paper Darts, Drunken Boat, Linebreak, PANK, and elsewhere. minnesota review 85 (2015...

... of the Sacred Stones to defend their territory from the Dakota Access Pipeline planned by Energy Transfer Partners, then-candidate Donald Trump decided to attack Senator Elizabeth Warren by calling her Pocahon- tas (Sacred Stone Camp 2016). During a news conference in North Dakota in May of 2016, Trump...

...Devoney Looser © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Works Cited Backscheider Paula R. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2005 . Browning Barrett Elizabeth Browning Robert...