... : Bar-Ilan University Press . Amabile Teresa M. Barsade Sigal G. Meuller Jennifer S. Staw Barry M. 2005 . “ Affect and Creativity at Work .” Administrative Science Quarterly 50 , no. 3 : 367 – 403 . Bal Mieke . 2002 . Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough...

...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...

... . Janell Watson Introduction China and the Humanities Today This special-focus section of minnesota review issue 79 is devoted to the peculiar place that China has come to occupy in the global humanities, especially in relation to the United States and Western Europe. American universities...

...Halley Furlong-Mitchell Halley Furlong-Mitchell the ascent of what human from slime last night was the last night I drink the worm hang yellow from the cloth wrung out wearing your tongue in pieces I have died three times this minute and met no one damp palms smoke dark like static someone says...

... the planet and driven itself to the brink of extinction. The answer that Atwood offers is bound up with the question of sexual difference. This novel suggests that rewriting “the human” at the end of the Anthropocene will require destabilizing man kind’s dominion not just over the natural world it inhabits...

... , and On Suicide Bombing (from his 2006 Wellek lectures). He is currently working on a genealogical critique of the notion of human rights and its contradictory coexistence alongside great violence such as war and regimes of punishment. © 2011 Virginia Tech 2011 This content is made freely available...

... . Aristotle . Politics . 323 BCE . Trans. Reeve C. D. C. . Indianapolis : Hackett , 1998 . Bulliet Richard W. Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships . New York : Columbia UP , 2005 . Digard Jean-Pierre . L’ homme et les animaux...

...Jessica D. Hand © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Jessica D. Hand Blind Gods, Human Braille In the beginning, the earth was flat. Blind gods sat between the cushions of galaxies, palming the earth’s smooth...

...Lennard J. Davis © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Works Cited Apter Emily . “Saidian Humanism.” boundary2 31 : 2 ( 2004 ): 35 - 53 . Said Edward W. After the Last Sky: Palestine Lives . New York : Pantheon , 1985 . ---. “Erich Auerbach, Critic...

... (on Stefan Collini’s Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain [Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006]; Mark Lilla’s The Reckless Mind [New York: New York Review of Books, 2001]; Edward Said’s Humanism and Democratic Criticism [New York: Columbia UP, 2004]; and Michael Warner’s “Styles...

...Gregory Jones-Katz Abstract In the last three decades of the twentieth century, theory became a “cognitive good” throughout the American academic humanities. The rise and uses of this new high-tech good fit the “new spirit of capitalism,” to quote Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's 2018 book...

...Henry Ivry As the Anthropocene has migrated from the life and physical sciences into the humanities as both a theoretical and material condition, there have been a growing number of critics who have critiqued the Anthropos of the Anthropo cene, arguing that the monolithic humanity imagined...

... that objects interact with one another in their own hidden ways, that objects are mysteriously indifferent to the human world, and that human subjectivity itself is just another object. Such a view is described as “posthuman” and is often called “flat ontology” (after Manuel DeLanda). The problem, however...

...Jesse Oak Taylor This article traces the implications of thinking about the Anthropocene from the perspective of the archives that make it visible, placing ice-core data and scientific research on historical climate alongside ideas of the archive in historiography and the humanities. Drawing...

...James J. Pulizzi The word Anthropocene purposely draws our attention to the anthropos , the humans who are now changing the planet’s climate. We must not forget, however, what media theorists and philosophers like Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, and Bernard Stiegler have pointed out—humans...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Jane Bennett discusses her highly influential notion of vibrant matter, which is her term for the idea that the locus of agency is always a human/nonhuman assemblage. In other words, there is an impetus to action in humans and animals, but the impetuses of “things...

...Gabriele Dürbeck This essay discusses the value of the Anthropocene concept for the environmental humanities and in particular for the analysis of contemporary environmentally themed literature. The first part of the essay considers the culturally relevant consequences of the originally geographic...

... Eames and Charles Eames’s animation Powers of Ten , drawing on examples from biology, ecology, and engineering. Scale variance is the opposite of fractal self-similarity and the smooth zoom effect apparent in Powers of Ten . Scale critique shows that the “human species” is not the subject...

... science discourses about diet, exercise, and sexuality insist on turning back the evolutionary clock. By returning to the Pleistocene or Paleolithic, these discourses display an evolutionary nostalgia in the face of massive ecological disruption. These popular works incorporate the science of human...

... them in a more doubtful light, Brennan looks at various theoretical moments of the immediate past: for example, the “subaltern,” the “multitude,” and the post-human. He observes along the way that the humanities themselves, paradoxically, have become the institution devoted to showing the absurdity...