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...-Blackwell . Grewal David Singh . 2008 . Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Mencía María . 2001 . Another Kind of Language . www.mariamencia.com/images/akl_flash/languages.swf (accessed August 11, 2011) . Ostler...

... 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...

...Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair The first of its kind, this special focus section examines a relatively understudied concept and brings together new literary works and scholarship across continents and languages. Contemporary...

... is that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone—now an ecological reserve—is paradigmatic or symptomatic, a theater for the complicated libidinal architecture of the kinds of postapocalyptic sites that may in coming years become the primary places for charismatic megafauna to live, and in which conservation becomes the management...

..., vision, and speculation—turns into an intellectual and yet material and physical power. Such a literacy would be an impersonal kind of literacy, a literacy for which poetics, mathematics, and the sciences are inextricably linked in the domain of what is here called—in distinction to atom time—atomic time...

... on what the focus of their discussion should be. As the lizards become more creatively inspired, several other characters appear and add their own perspective, and through the liveliness of conversation and the difference of voices there emerges a kind of “chameleonics” in which multicolored light...

... in which the not-happy subject is prevented from forming any kind of investment—thereby becomes a way to envision a form of praxis particular to the not-happy subject. The essay also suggests that greater attention to the need for critical “triage” when analyzing the relative intellectual recuperability...

... sense of flexibility, provisionality, and dependence on the morrow. It examines the irony whereby contemporary capitalism's reliance on stored energies not only has produced crises of insecurity unprecedented in scale but also threatens this other kind of precariousness, eliminating both the risk...

... to make connections among all kinds of problems, situations, or contradictions. © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Works Cited Eagleton Terry . 1986 . Against the Grain . London : Verso . Jameson Fredric . 1971 . “ Metacommentary ,” in The Ideologies of Theory . Minneapolis...

... 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...

... in the Apology ), the essay argues that defending the humanities as good leads to unacceptable conclusions. In the realm of literary studies, these take the form of exclusions of the kind (though not necessarily the degree) that Socrates models in the Republic . Any such censorship is unacceptable not because...

... as the art of persuading people—at the levels of perception and sensibility as well as reason—that they are Earthlings. Her current project considers the possibility that a kind of materialism informs Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass . Bennett’s previous monographs include Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment...

... a new kind of connection across the arts, and a new sense of global contemporaneity has emerged in which the center is much more difficult to locate. As to contemporary Chinese art in general, he perceives a “great leap,” in which much exciting, innovative work is being done. While recognizing the rapid...

... characters who experience sensations, but he also arouses a variety of sensations by means of poetic craft, from line to line, image to image, and sound to sound. As a result, his poetry functions here as a kind of hinge between the Thomistic account of sensory perception and Adorno’s articulation...

... councilor even when he was in his eighties. So, he was pretty committed. He came from South Wales, so he had that kind of Left background that’s pretty unique in that country. So I guess that influ- enced me in some ways. Watson  Many activists do not engage in academic argument, but you do...

... scathing indictment of late nineteenth-century British culture. I wonder how far we can push the comparison between Trollope’s novel and the kinds of arguments you’re making. What are your primary concerns? Anderson I would just say at the outset that my goal...

... his personal watercraft. I become his vessel named Rebel and we walk side by side on the pier. He reduces me until nothing remains but desire, the mooring buoy kind, the kind that lingers too long like a dinghy. We talk, not the brunch kind, but the bare-handed ice...

.... It was still a culture where people expected specialization and a level of professionalization, but at the same time those same people were beginning to cast a very skeptical glance at the protocols by which you produced the kind of scholars that preceded them...

... connectivity to the rest of the world. By 1873 or so, the newspapers from London, the tabloids, start to come in, brought in by train, so the local press declines back into ads and other local gossip. Williams Kind of like now. Harvey Exactly. So this microcosm...