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...Imre Szeman; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article argues for the necessity of articulating and struggling for an energy common. An energy common is not intended to substitute for articulations of the common in general. Rather, the specific discussion of energy in relation to the common...

... sense of flexibility, provisionality, and dependence on the morrow. It examines the irony whereby contemporary capitalism's reliance on stored energies not only has produced crises of insecurity unprecedented in scale but also threatens this other kind of precariousness, eliminating both the risk...

... an ecocivilization. There is an irreducible East Asian and an important interological dimension to the article. At a formal level, the article is meant as a textual body without organs (BwO) or a Taiji - ( Tai chi -) style text, which privileges the flow of textual energy over structural clarity and classicality...

... as essential to preserving the critical energy of cultural studies as its concepts and methodologies spread around the globe. In Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004), Michael Denning claims that the era of cultural studies has come to an end with the sociopolitical paradigm shift that moves us from...

...—the amplifying feedback loop between surplus value and the surplus energy derived from fossil fuels, which effects a rift in the biospheric carbon cycle—I track a metaphoric drift in materialist invocations of air toward ideality and ahistoricity: atmosphere as allegory of the outside. The atmospheric figures...

... J. Reis . Lincoln : U of Nebraska P , 1965 . 5 - 24 . (Also trans. as “Art as Device” in Theory of Prose.) ---. Bowstring . 1970 . Trans. forthcoming . Springfield, IL : Dalkey Archive . ---. Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot . 1981 . Trans. Shushan Avagyan . Springfield, IL...

... abides in a world without us. Georges Bataille discusses this type of disaster two decades earlier as the general expenditure of energy available to the earth in his first volume of The Accursed Share ([1949] 1989), and while stellar aging is surely a key frame for think- ing ecology in the widest...

... . Eilperin Juliet Mufson Steven 2017 . “ Trump Seeks to Revive Dakota Access, Keystone XL Oil Pipelines .” Washington Post , January 24 . www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/24/trumpgives-green-light-to-dakota-access-keystone-xl-oil-pipelines/?noredirect=on&utm_term...

... understandings of timespace, singularity, and cau- sality (Barad 2010, 248), allowing for intra-active dynamism made up of many atoms/waves/energies/forces/identities that gather/are-made- intelligible/show-interference-patterns differently when with differing (measuring) apparatuses or “obstacles...

...- ization and Latin American Cinema (2016) and The Debt Age (2016), edited with Jeffrey Di Leo and Peter Hitchcock. Imre Szeman is University Research Chair of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. His most recent books include On Pet- rocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy (2019...

... —​the disturbing co-incidence of information and energy, of code and matter, that we witness in electro-technics and informatics. The novel manners of measuring chance are physical measures of a substantial kind of contingency that are physical in the sense that they afford, within certain bounds...

..., NY : Punctum Books . O'Rourke Michael . 2011 . “‘Girls Welcome!!!’ Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Queer Theory.” Speculations 2 : 276 – 312 . Reprinted in Kolozova and Joy 2016: 159–97 . Vermeulen Timotheus . 2014 . “Borrowed Energy” (interview...

... negativity of impulse to the contingent real- ization of program. To regard this as an abrupt or unmediated relation would be to risk the excision of the utopian from the political, to abandon its transformative energy at the very moment it is most needed. Simply to separate rather than sublate...

... such periods are predicted to be highly infor- mative if at all discernible. The lab is a dissipative system —​it tends toward entropy. Like other living organisms, the lab itself is both ener- getic and informatic, and as such is sustained or dissipated through the ongoing alteration of energy...

... uncle s rundown car, the Ambassador. In these extraordinary passages about the automobile that sometimes recall Ritwik Ghatak s film Ajantrik (1958), Chaudhuri recreates the stutter and stammer of the vehicle in the prose the commas and the semicolons and the similes bring together a kind of energy...

... by reviewing the work of social theorists, psychotherapists, and other intellectual Cold Warriors to show how the standard “containment culture” theory misses the paradoxical ways the Cold War produced an anxiety about a national character whose energy had been drained...

..., however, is the effect it will have on undergraduates. they will be as well-rounded as they are well-traveled. they will be, in the noblest sense, cosmopolitans as they experience first hand the dynamism and energy of life in a developing country, its collective 132 the minnesota review...

... loved more than me. All kinds of energy, until pink eraser bits of your head arched out in a splatter of hairy, bloody gunk. You are now something I can walk all over, bury or bleach —​ form and content blended into discontent. To be dead...

... of critique within ongoing democratic cultures. While I don’t mean to act as though there’s some sort of progressive energy at play that will guarantee that exclusions will become the focus of critique and ultimately be dispelled or overcome, I believe that those who...

... at “Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits,” the Tenth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment , University of Kansas, Lawrence , May 28-June 1 . Otto Eric C. 2012 . Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism...