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the minnesota review (2018) 2018 (91): 56–67.
Published: 01 November 2018
...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...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (100): 80–99.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the development of new, creative methodologies in cultural scholarship that can expand our understanding of the uses of creativity beyond understanding it as a practice that generates forms of value that can be transferred to other areas of civic life. [email protected] © 2023 Virginia Tech 2023...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 102–110.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the artistic cultivation of the singular potentials associated with black life. In other words, Danez Smith s poetry isn t exhausted by the author s identity as a black, queer, HIV-positive writer, even as these traits inflect their writing at the levels of form and content. Smith s poetry is resolutely...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 139–148.
Published: 01 November 2016
... escape. This is not to reinforce our real binding to labor but a way to suggest new forms of mapping and thinking this binding as contradictory and as capable of being exploded from within. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 life labor value Karl Marx Jacques Derrida Works Cited Althusser...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (92): 58–72.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Robert F. Reid-Pharr This article argues that the contemporary forms of macho populism dominating much of US political and cultural life have their ideological and aesthetic roots in the country’s vexed relationship to the memory of its own violence, particularly the many images of dead...
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the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (96): 69–81.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of study: its points are most per- suasive when it eschews familiar accounts of literary form and instead treats literary and economic sources together as advancing historically specific ideas about economic life. For its part, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Econom­ ics displays a variety...
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the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (97): 53–76.
Published: 01 November 2021
... objects and construct a deeply invested negotiation with material and aesthetic-affective desire; second, the “ghosting desire” where all plastic artists are shown to have an epiphanous and analytic relationship with plastic objects as they make their way into art forms having a past life to themselves...
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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (79): 137–156.
Published: 01 November 2012
... to include and be included by natural processes. Robert Smithson’s “paleoart,” which engages with the “deep time” of natural geologic processes and extinct life-forms, is perhaps the most dramatic instance of this newly evident relation of art × environment. Sheng  As a Western art historian from...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (77): 131–142.
Published: 01 November 2011
... and transformational forms of discourse. Understanding literature as transformational requires us to consider, however, the fundamental question of whether “criticism” itself is even compatible with the kinds of surface, pious, generous, intensive, mutual reading imagined as alternatives. The essay explores several...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 80–106.
Published: 01 November 2015
... W. 2001 . “Commencement Address at Yale University.” New Haven, CT , May 21 . www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=45895 . Caesar Terry . 1992 . Conspiring with Forms: Life in Academic Texts . Athens : University of Georgia Press . Chronicle of Higher Education . 2010...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (89): 71–82.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and the immersion of the lives of plants. © 2017 Virginia Tech 2017 imagination Averroism form of life sensation Italian theory Gerardo Muñoz Imagination and the Life of Thought An Interview with Emanuele Coccia Emanuele Coccia is associate professor at the École des Hautes Etudes...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 180–188.
Published: 01 November 2015
... deeply estranged from our critical investments in the concept of “emergent precarities,” a phrasing that draws us less toward the fetishism of etymological origins and philological traditions than toward the implied imminence and immanent potential of social transformation and novel forms of life...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (82): 59–96.
Published: 01 May 2014
... contemporary epistemological experience between form and life. At stake is a lack of complexity in other regimes of thinking beyond the aesthetic fold of the stepped-sign in its original context. In the absence of such situ- ated, built metaphors we see how we do not apply the same kind...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 110–115.
Published: 01 November 2016
... as its starting point the presupposition that technological advances within the devel- opment of capital have shifted commodity production from material goods to immaterial products such as “knowledge, language, science, culture, art, information, forms of life, relations with oneself, others...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (88): 59–68.
Published: 01 May 2017
... there), the body as transindividuation, the body as resonant materiality, the body as the metastable field before the taking-form of this or that. The body, always more than one, replete with the force of life. . . . The body, more assemblage than form, more associated milieu than Being...
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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (78): 95–103.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., which offers an important theoretical elucidation of violence and its figures. Literary visions of political origins stage the binding forms of violence intrinsic to politi- cal life in the West. In doing so, these literary figurations have made overt what many a thinker has sought...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (83): 122–132.
Published: 01 November 2014
... strategies might help us imagine socioecological futures, confront socioecological disasters and our complicity in their production, and comport ourselves on and toward a planet we share with other life forms and things. In what follows I consider how one speculative novel, Jeanette Winterson’s...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 171–181.
Published: 01 November 2016
... emerged in critical theory, promising a “postanthropocentric” concept of material reality that claims to affirm and restore the value of “life” on the planet in all its forms. According to new materialism, which is part of the general discourses of the post- humanism turn in critical theory...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 153–161.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of digitizing life experience in order to produce an imagined life. Ostensibly, social media sites such as Facebook aim for verisimilitude, but they are undercut in this enterprise by the very forms of self-fashioning on which their newsfeeds feed. Interestingly, the emergence of social media...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 107–118.
Published: 01 November 2015
.../ . Elizabeth Adan and Benjamin Bateman Emergent Precarities and Lateral Aesthetics An Introduction What forms of aesthetic practice and cultural production are cur- rently emerging, or historically have emerged, to give shape and expression to what Judith Butler (2004) calls “precarious life...