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... 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...

... make connections among all kinds of problems, situations, or contradictions. © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Maria Elisa Cevasco Imagining a Space That Is Outside An Interview with Fredric Jameson In our times, which have been aptly characterized as the moment of theory, Fredric...

... 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...

... line 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...

... 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 and...

... 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...

... produced 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...

... create 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... annihilation, which crouches in a kind of doggie style. I have the luxury of leaning in to listen. We spread across the Midwestern prairie without moving. We independently weigh our industrial decay. You know, streets have names, and cars have names. I’m not finished with...

...Christian Detisch © 2015 Christian Detisch 2015 Christian Detisch this is not a poem about longing the absence of love or sentimentality (sentimentality my friend says is for people who can’t handle real emotions) since I think you would hate that kind of...

...Phil Gruis © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Phil Gruis Healer I’m not the kind to scuttle behind a celebrity, hoisting an umbrella to shade a swollen head. Yet I will vanish utterly into the shadow of this rock-star dog, this black bear prancing...

...Laura Wetherington © 2013 Laura Wetherington 2013 Laura Wetherington To death, as it is a place, after Ghérasim Luca like living underwater with           an open umbrella, like some kind of caesarian,           caesura, or anti-breath, or like the musical chairs of bodies...

...Rage Hezekiah © 2016 Rage Hezekiah 2016 Rage Hezekiah My First Job Eight years old, in a well-worn soccer uniform, I wrapped an empty coffee can with bright paper, stood outside the corner store, asking for donations. Kind neighbors, unknowing...

... loved more than me. All kinds of energy, until pink eraser bits of your head arched out in a splatter of hairy, bloody gunk. You are now something I can walk all over, bury or bleach —​ form and content blended into discontent. To be dead is to be...

... Zero. He puts it In a bag and takes it to a place where other Severed limbs and clothing and some personal Effects are being gathered. The pieces Are piled in hopeless disarray. My cousin Is a good man with a broad, kind face. The face In the bag...

... with a slow hymn, a southern spiritual, I guessed, and then Rabbi Goldfine began a Chassidic chant, the kind generally accompanied by clarinet, and elderly Mrs. Booth— You can imagine how this must have sounded, an awful cacophony of five or...