...Natalie Lyalin © 2014 Natalie Lyalin 2014 Natalie Lyalin I Made His Blood I I I I Made his blood It was my job I made a computer virus on the side I I I I Responded to all the emails in your box...

.... Through analysis of worlds made possible in science fiction, the author builds on his previous theoretical work to develop what he calls “a method for radical utopian cognition”—one that sees cultural cognition based in logic, emotions, and a utopian frame in which destiny or resolution is not dictated...

...Ranjan Ghosh This article tries to develop a complicated relationship between the material-plastic, the desire principle, and its affective dimensions. It explores how plastic “touches” us multi-sensorially through its materiality and materialization. As ready-made, found, waste, abandoned...

... of methods, frameworks, and feedback systems in which projects emerge out of process and evolve from within communities and with people, rather than being made for or about them. Co-creation, we contend, offers a hands-on heuristic to explore the expressive capacities and possible forms of agency in systems...

... 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...

...Stephen A. Nelson Although it has been nearly ten years since the Hurricane Katrina disaster, many misconceptions (myths) still surround the events that took place. Among these myths are that levees failed the day after Katrina made landfall, that the failed levees were on the Mississippi River...

...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Within days of the breach of the levees in New Orleans, a second man-made disaster—the “recovery” efforts—began to transform the city’s institutions, leaving many urban partisans afraid that New Orleans would be rebuilt along the model of other, more expensive, less habitable...

... and writing as they are employed to imagine a world made by us and a world without us. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014 Works Cited Bataille Georges . (1949) 1989 . The Accursed Share . Vol. 1 . New York : Zone Books . Blanchot Maurice . 1995 . The Writing of the Disaster...

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... weekend. I was eating cereal out of the box. He didn t say that he was sorry, only that he missed me. His upbringing made him this way clingy, unwilling to apologize. He d told me in passing about his mom killing his dad, using the same matter-of-fact tone minnesota review 99 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667...

... them to made-up names at made-up addresses, because made-up is love, as if it were particular. To each imagined recipient of each neat-margined note he projects past the window he props open even in winter: What its gold eye sees, I see. I sing the song in its glass throat.       • When I...

... are sacred, so said Pythagoras. “Anything I want?” “Anything you want, darling.” Tommy’s swollen sneakers made haste to GameStop. Of course, of course. Not that I expected him to veer toward Barnes & Noble. A son is a precious thing, no matter what he likes, which isn’t what you like...

... was sleeping with someone at the gym. Then she stood there, hands on her hips, surveying her husband's work. I watched her point, like, You missed one there, dear, then Jeff turn to respond. I was across the street, window closed, but could tell they got into a fight: Jen made wide arm gestures...

... came in a wash and he plunged his hand into the floodwater and thrummed it over the wound. He brought his finger to his mouth and sucked. It tasted like bad fish and the vitamins that his wife made him take once he came round to fifty years. With it was the taste of the water, all...

... show him what I’ve made with math. I show him how I shot my bedroom in 25 steps, so that the contact sheet made a mosaic of the room, with black-bordered grids reading Kodak Tri-X. It’s good film, good grain. Even the mistakes are good. Look how I’ve made my world into measurable space. I have...

... at Forton Plastics stuffing giblets into turkeys, which none of us acknowledged aloud. He d worked for decades at the post office but got too damn slow, showing up after dark with the mail. Frightening people. It made no sense to me, why suddenly he couldn t deliver his rural route in less than ten hours...

...: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times . New York : Walker , 2008 . Schlesinger Arthur M. Jr. The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom . 1949 . New Brunswick : Transaction P , 1998 . Smith Jean Edwards . FDR . New York : Random House...

... frowned and shrugged. "I wanted to avoid this." "What am I going to do?" "You'll be fine." He tucked a wad of Euros into her hand. "You can get home with this." Her face burned, but she made no effort to push the money away. The smell of toothpaste barely covered his morning...

... it crept into our bodies and made that inexplicable change to our minds. I knew I too would lose my words, my mind becoming some- thing else, tongue curling into dust. And we my daughter and I were the lucky ones, who had lasted this long and still maintained our words. Or perhaps, unlucky to have...

.... What s he looking for? Laksha asked. I don t know, I said. Dissatisfied, the man ran his fingers through his curly brown hair, gripping it tightly like he was about to tear it out. Then, abruptly, he turned to us, made a scooping gesture with both his hands as if to say, Follow me, and scuttled...