...Alison S. Lebwohl Alison S. Lebwohl Before a live audience The street magician pushes the ice pick, pushes through skin, past sinews, nerves, veins: pushes it through his whole hand. Mom, our boys say. Dad, our boys say. Are you watching? A plain man steps forward, pulls free an unmarred blade...

... to Ruysch’s floral bouquets and referencing the (fetal) anatomical dioramas created by her father, Frederik Ruysch. The poet aims to mobilize the creative mode of linguistic inquiry, poetry, to build a new vocabulary for attending to and grieving both living and nonliving things without reinforcing modern...

... . 2000 . Empire . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Nussbaum Martha . 1999 . “ The Professor of Parody: The Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler .” New Republic ( February 22 ): 37 – 45 . Francescomaria Tedesco The Theory That Lives On —​ A Counterintuitive History...

... realm of attachments and intimacies. The commons, moreover, is also where the lived politics of address and recognition sustain a continuum of privilege, exceptionalism, and states of exception. It is where the juridical and metaphysical matrices from which the body garners voice, name, and the affects...

... this perspective, the lyric qualities of Smith’s verse are social not because they prescribe a proper collective identity but because they invent modes of relation that transform social death into the possibility of another way of living. This is the uncommons: a reckoning with the racialized political economy...

... 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...

... for such worldings is to be found in the concept of shared, quotidian affliction, following the work—including the work of both living and dying—of Simone Weil. The entry point into a nonhuman reading of Weil is Chris Kraus’s 1997 novel, I Love Dick , which here becomes a story at the threshold of the human-animal...

...Véronique Richard; Vlad Glăveanu; Patrice Aubertin Creativity is not linear, but writing about it often is. Creativity is messy; writing about it is not. Creativity lives in the in-between; writing about it points to the space within. Creativity involves movement—it is, in fact, a form of movement...

..., and working with imprisoned writers. What can we learn from free minds in extremely taxing, degrading, and depressing circumstances? What does creative work mean for embodied lives serving (more than) life sentences? The book works toward a way to restore and rebuild justice, and it shows us the power...

... known as the Bywater, through scholarly accounts of the function of music in the slave trade, through reports on the singing of survivors in the immediate aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and in terms of the ongoing efforts of some New Orleanians to minimize the sound of live music...

...Nicole M. Merola This essay considers Jeanette Winterson’s speculative novel The Stone Gods for the literary, formal, and tonal strategies it employs to diagnose and illuminate the material burdens of producing and living in the Anthropocene. Using the geologic tool of stratigraphy in concert...

... but over woman kind as well. The article argues that in the MaddAddam trilogy, the relation between “man” and “woman” is negotiated through the relation between the biopolitical management of life and the ethical response to individual lives that have been deemed disposable. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014...

... lyric and the prospect poem, Prynne, Awoonor, and Trethewey use the hill as a location for staging the ethical dilemmas of the putative “global citizen.” From poetic hills in England, Ghana, and New Orleans, the view stretches to accommodate global suffering, inequality, and the lives of others, who...

..., and how their work influenced, often in polemical response, biblical scholarship on early Christianity. In particular, this tradition of Christian communism has taken two forms, one concerned with communal living and “having all things in common” and the other with the revolutionary origins...

... and the immersion of the lives of plants. Gerardo Muñoz Imagination and the Life of Thought An Interview with Emanuele Coccia Emanuele Coccia is associate professor at the École des Hautes Etudes (EHESS) and visiting fellow in the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia...

... of literature — the side of Socrates least likely to appear in contemporary apologies for the humanities — to bear upon his paradigmatic contribution to the genre of apology. Beginning by remarking the violence of Socrates’s claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living” (the most often quoted line...

... that to uncover the richness of the material world, including how it affects us and its implications for our lives, we need to know what it is made of; in other words, what actually makes up the objects and things that we need and use? Documentation science complements and supports Lehmann's call for material...

... of Virginia. Lisa Fink, born from milk and snow in Minnesota, now lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her poems and reviews have appeared in magazines like Spinning Jenny, Spout, Rain Taxi, and Fork­lift, Ohio. Aricka Foreman is a writer, performer, and educator. A Cave Canem fellow...

... prose, Intersex, is forthcoming in 2014. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in LIT, Washing- ton Square Review, Verse, Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Caliban, PANK, Caketrain, Sleepingfish, and elsewhere. Shauna Barbosa lives and writes in Boston. Her work has appeared in Metazen, Sundog...

... the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (2013), a memoir and cultural history of food allergy. She lives in Washington, DC. Brent Goodman is the author of Far from Sudden (2013), The Brother Swimming Beneath Me (2009), and two chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sou’wester...