...Sean Cho A. © 2021 Sean Cho A. 2021 Sean Cho A. Future Poem: nine months sober You ve been still in all the right ways: you came back empty-handed, fresh-minded on all your spring- time walks to nowhere. Just like you were supposed to. Last December your throat was filled with want. Your task...

... UP , 2002 . —. Gender Trouble . New York : Routledge , 1999 . —. Undoing Gender . New York : Routledge , 2004 . Edelman Lee . No Future . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . —. “ Post Partum .” Narrative 10.2 ( 2002 ): 181 - 85 . Foucault Michel . The History...

... of queer theoretical studies of affect and futurity (Heather Love, Lee Edelman, Sianne Ngai); postcolonial studies of melancholy (Paul Gilroy); and competing critical approaches to both happiness (Martha Nussbaum) and the “not-happy” consequences of traumatic histories (Carolyn Kay Steedman). The essay...

... to show that this often marginalized literary-philosophical concept takes center stage in the political, ethical, scientific, and technological transformations that cast a shadow on present and future generations. © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020 mimesis literary theory literary criticism...

... to the fundamental questions and dilemmas that China faces today: the absence of social consensus and coherent social values that provide not only cohesiveness to an increasingly diverse and fragmented society in rapid transformation but also clues to the world community as to the future orientations of a rising...

... that the Anthropocene can best be understood as a form of writing, a process by which humankind inscribes permanent messages into the geological, climatological, and biochemical records of our planet and is forced, in turn, to study those records for messages pertaining to its future. It discusses the relationship...

.... At the end, it offers some general reflections on methods, past and possibly future, in literary studies. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 close reading digital humanities Franco Moretti literary studies New Criticism Works Cited Brooks Cleanth . 1979 . “The New Criticism.” Sewanee...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Talal Asad discusses his career, his ideas, and his future plans. An Oxford-trained cultural anthropologist, Asad began with fieldwork, studying the effects of colonialism on the political life of a nomadic tribe in northern Sudan. Asad was born in Saudi Arabia...

... as data that can in turn be statistically analyzed. We (and our apparatuses) gather and encode this “past” not to learn more about our present selves or to give our contemporary lives meaning but to better predict the future —​ especially the immediate or near future —​such as, which parts...

.... Brooks . 2011 . “ ‘We’re Using Up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone’: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood .” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 46 ( 1 ): 9 – 26 . Braidotti Rosi . 2013 . The Posthuman . Cambridge, UK : Polity . Canavan...

... : University of Chicago Press . Fisher Mark . 2010 . “Reading the Imperceptible Tremors of an Unimaginable Future.” Mute , May 11 , www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/reading-imperceptible-tremors-unimaginable-future . Friedman Thomas L. 2005 . The World Is Flat: A Brief...

... Imagination of the Global . Oxford : Oxford University Press . ———. 2012 . “ Introduction: The Invention of Eco-Futures .” Ecozon@ 3 ( 2 ): 1 – 10 . Land Nick . 2011 . Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007 . Falmouth, UK : Urbanomic . LeMenager Stephanie . 2011...

... of the world’s younger nations (perhaps following from Jacques Derrida’s often-cited “Declarations of Independence” —the United States and Haiti spring to mind) serve as examples in which bracing aesthetic expression directly intervened into the political present and made claims on the future —​effects...

...: 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...

..., especially as queer people, under siege in this nation and that the very idea of “justice” itself is a goal whose future awaits us. While the spirit 200 the minnesota review of the piece is very much appreciated, I am wondering why it is necessary to produce “caution...

... in the externalities that enable us to remember. As such, it is a fitting counterweight to economists’ tendency to “external- ize” (by which they mean forget) the atmospheric effects of industrial development. Archives are about the future. They look forward to a moment at which the present will be past...

... 2016). This advanced computational infrastructure alone would have altered the daily working and future antics of the laboratory, but in addition there was a fluke weather formation that led to massive flooding across the north of England. The LSS was flooded, and its newly active floor...

... to be rediscovered years into the future. He explains that people do it so they can be surprised by how much things have changed, or to remember things that may soon be forgotten. Which is why, he says, it is so impor- tant to make memories, so you will have something to put into the time capsule. Later that week...

... 25 : 35 – 54 . Jameson Fredric . 2007 . Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions . London : Verso . Juenger Friedrich Georg . 1949 . The Failure of Technology: Perfection without Purpose , translated by Wieck F. D. . Hinsdale, IL...

... reorienting futurity than it is to intervening in and blocking the present time of circula- tion. As Maurizio Lazzarato argues, the function of debt (from the standpoint of capital) is “reducing what will be to what is, that is, reducing the future and its possibilities to current power relations...