...Dana Curtis [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Dana Curtis 2024 While fire follows the broken moon and the sky follows the irises spinning like seaside hotels carefully falling off cliffs only to discover they like these new places although no wheat grows here. The fields...

... for such worldings is to be found in the concept of shared, quotidian affliction, following the work—including the work of both living and dying—of Simone Weil. The entry point into a nonhuman reading of Weil is Chris Kraus’s 1997 novel, I Love Dick , which here becomes a story at the threshold of the human-animal...

... while matter is figured as passive and immutable?” With this shift toward the material, bodies began to be seen in a different light and their materiality understood as something that follows its own laws and movements, which cannot be understood exclusively in terms of social-cultural codes. Instead...

... that describe the West during the late twentieth century, particularly those that erupt from Salvador Allende’s brief presidency in Chile and the many confrontations between neoliberalism, indigenism, and political activism. Following the movement of visual representation to sculpture, I trace how Vicuña...

... of the Anthropocene to the wider discourse of posthumanism and also touches upon the importance of speculative realism as well as genres like the science-fiction novel to help us conceptualize our new condition. A brief summary of each of the ten essays in the focus section follows. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014...

... in such formalizations that the heuristic force of what we call theory lies: these formalizations are what “force,” in Alain Badiou's sense, new knowledges, something I will show in what follows by both outlining some of Lacan's formalizations and offering a few of my own. Furthermore, in the second half of this essay...

...Francescomaria Tedesco In the interview that follows, Timothy Brennan argues that intellectual history is a dimension missing from most cultural theory. He suggests that this weakens theory, since intellectual history is not simply the frame for arguments but part of the substance of statements. He...

..., however, is ultimately ambivalent because it depends on his position as an artist-critic; thus, rather than endorsing an alternative method, the essay, following Coetzee's imperative to “speak without authority,” simply leaves the question provocatively open. © 2011 Virginia Tech 2011 Works Cited...

...Mohammed Abdullah Hussein Muharram Despite the renewed interest in Arabic writing following Naguib Mahfouz's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the war on terror, and the US invasion of Iraq, texts by Arab authors are surprisingly absent from the major...

...Eric D. Smith Following Paul Buhle's claims about the inherent utopianism of horror, this essay examines the popular film Daybreakers (2009) as a cultural response to the economic and biopolitical crises of the Great Recession. Ultimately retreating from the dark mirror of its compelling dystopian...

... as the complex site for assessing the entanglements and inner workings of cultural memory. Following Rita Felski’s call to pursue attachment over critical detachment in scholarship, this article enacts creative-critical attention via a focus on mermaids in contemporary public discourse. [email protected]...

... year, I betray my kin. Hard-wired to herd, they go where others follow. I lead them in. But even wild horses believe in sin. I’ve seen the way their eyes roll back in fear. Still, I betray my kin into that corral. Deceit’s a thin path beaten through my brain. So...

... the backward and forward, the traveling in a small arc through space, the swinging of the gate and the opening of the window, but what follows immediately after: Sandeep ran upstairs with his cousins, not looking back. . . . There was a thrilled impatience about his movements, as if he either wanted to finish...

... those lines, that ten pounds you’ve been trying to lose since christmas will melt as you step into a new world, followed by the faint and jubilant sound of cheers and a growing patter of footfalls from all those inspired and following— © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 ...

... will follow you until you take it, he says. I will follow. I say, How the fuck do you know my name? He says, I move in mysterious ways. I say, that’s not funny. He says, in the name of love open the door. I say, not funny either. He tries the knob. I jam a chair against...

... else to determine the future. Refined thesis statement: Maybe not because appeasement, some historians say, (endnotes) started World War II. Possible topic sentence: To acquiesce to an abortion or a war becomes expansively problematic. Possible evidence: Irrational to follow the middle sister who never...

... controversial reinvention. In what follows, I use Maoism to minnesota review 101 (2023) DOI 10.1215/00265667-10770177 © 2023 Virginia Tech 41 42 the minnesota review argue that early Zionism was an emancipatory movement a claim that would surely be unacceptable to those who still today divide the world...

... that followed, both Postman adults worked at paid labor, while Fannie Robinson kept house and took care of both their daughter Sydelle and her own children. Money was tight, and the two families shared a single apartment. Lillian’s experience in what she considered a working-class family sparked her...

... imagination” (1976, 55). Even more significantly, Jameson follows Bloch’s lead and calls for further development of what he names “Utopian analysis or method, of the Utopian principle as a her- meneutic or technique of decipherment, in opposition to the examina- tion of the content of individual Utopian...

... . “ The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow) .” Trans. Wills David . Critical Inquiry 28 ( Winter 2002 ): 370 - 418 . Dick Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? London : Orion , 1999 . Fudge Erica . Animal . London : Reaktion , 2002 . Lévi-Strauss...