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...Amalie Kwassman Copyright © 2019 Amalie Kwassman 2019 Amalie Kwassman just let it I ve always said, if the darkness is going to come, let it come then. Being in a shelter can do that to you. I don t want to be surprised anymore. Like when the biggest girl in my room on the first night tells...

... tend to be from one small sector of PhD-granting institutions; the enormous preference for elite affiliation in these hiring competitions has stratified the discipline to the point that just 1 percent of faculty at top-ranked English departments are graduates from the so-called bottom 75 percent of PhD...

... 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...

... not just of bodies, populations, or sexual practices but of desire itself. Margret Grebowicz Ecology after Dark Chernobyl s Wild Horses and the Traffic in Desire In July 2018 I visited the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, popularly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, as part of a group...

... of currency forms is interpreted by the Money Makers as a positive route of discovery toward a fair economy, an attitude of “failing forward.” Never quite successful, never quite finished, never just-right—to fail forward means that failure is not only imminent, it is required to attain success. New...

... of imagination as not just a creative but also a spiritual force. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Virginia Tech 2023 creativity incarceration poverty restorative justice prison narrative Works Cited Epps Amber . 2019 . Introduction to Life Sentences: Writings from Inside...

... ara (passageways or routes) for critically reflecting on their multispecies relations and on how those relations may be made more just. Through the discussion of ancestral narrative, as well as poetry, prose, and visual artworks that center the perspectives and characteristics of tuna, the essay...

... 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...

... to disturbing Western attitudes toward Muslims. While he recognized the contributions of Orientalist scholars, such as their knowledge of languages and translations of key texts, he and his collaborators in England found their way of thinking unsophisticated, biased, sweepingly broad, and often just plain wrong...

... to persist in a modern godless context in which conclusive definition amounts to evasive consolation. Overcoming is defined by how it foregoes temporally transcendent, univocal definition: how it fore-swears, pro-jects, pre-tends. If Nietzschean overcoming ultimately is just what it does, then it avoids...

... distribution, and family law. She challenges the democratic state to acknowledge and overcome its oligarchical and kleptocratic practices. Stevens proposes a number of concrete measures with the aim of achieving a more egalitarian and just society. Rather than concern itself with regulating marriage, the state...

...Sheng Anfeng In this interview, W. J. T. Mitchell discusses many issues of concern to his readers. He talks about the relationship between art and environment and between images and words. For him, iconology at its foundation is not just about images but also about words; it is about investigating...

... are inherently technological. It is not mere humans that have reached out and changed the climate but humans extended by planet-scale economies and industries. The computed climate models that show us the climate has changed are just another way we’ve come to rely on automated devices to understand what...

.... But it s not your fault, he said for the millionth time. It s just how I react to you. Isn t everything just a reaction? What? I meant to say that everything in the world was technically just my senses making things up. My family, the island, every man I d ever slept with none of this could really...

... Lover! Mostly, though, we just eat the little candies up until our stom- achs are all bloated, like we drank way too much root beer. Then we shoot the rest at each other with slingshots and call each other love turd and God lover. Little heart bullets, and boy do they leave marks. So...

... the dead sheep, stripping its bones clean; “we won't waste good meat, even if this was the devil's work,” the father told his children looking on. But of course it wasn't the devil's work. Just his alone. Just the boy's work, just Helgi's. He still didn't really know why he did it. He knew even less...

... made that film and would-be Marxists when we finished it. We realized the inabil- ity of social democrats to do anything constructive. Just to judge in more general terms, if the cinema is any kind of force for social change, then it’s a force for the bad, because most films are about one...

.... Did someone break in, do you think? asked Michelle. Just to leave a hat? Maybe it s a message of some kind? We should see if anything s been stolen. We decided that I would look in the living room and kitchen and Michelle would check the bedroom and bathroom. I m a pretty lousy looker I don t...