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...Matthew Neill Null Matthew Neill Null Mates The deer’s haunch shivered in the crosshairs. The hide was winter’s gray, and the air didn’t feel like November. Cold had come early this year, indifferent as the sharpest scythe. The haunch moved: a doe. Crosshairs swung after...

... I doubt she could snap off one of my fingers, she could certainly pluck out an eye or tear off one of my ears. So, in an attempt to forge a friendship (and in the process avoid a nasty bite), whenever I sit in the cage and spend time with her I do my best to behave the way a flock-mate...

... social life and industry that once thrived there it is also currently a place inhabited by objects, inani- mate but exquisitely alive with their own decay, with death itself. The radiation had imbued my precious ceramic squares with an uncanny autonomy. I feared them, so I let them be. As every disaster...

... the coffee mate in the kitchen run that damn drycleaning through the shredder and tell them all finally after years of silent acquiescence that everyone took for agreement, even contentment that you are not a machine. (outside, the air will feel like freshly washed silk, your face...

... or suctioned to the vinyl splotch-ridden siding. Our grandfather died curled in a hospital bed near an uncurtained window. We watched him writhe, weak, all night complaining of singing. Maybe it s crickets mating, I said, but I didn t believe this. Slugs make a loud rhythmic scraping when they eat. On trash...

... not much, with eight suctioned arms. But after a male mates he dies. That’s something. I found myself hurting as I watched a renowned Japanese sushi chef dismantle a live octopus before the camera crew for three hundred dollars a plate. A nice way to say...

... machines; how the spinning plate and the glowing light and the pie in the center getting hotter and hotter with a soggying top and chewy bottom fascinated him. He d stand in front of it in the factory break room and stare until a coworker, a grown man blondie, said, Don t stare at that, mate! You ll ruin...

... is moved? By whose muscle? Where does it come to rest? What we talk about when we talk about talking is, Who defines and delineates? Where does their detritus go? Who is safe, and who is ulti - mately free? ...

... the most natural thing to do. But, adoptions are long and expensive and sometimes never mate- rialize. Messy, is what my sister, who already had four kids, had said to me recently. You could wait five years before you even get a chance to see your baby. And by that time, your baby is suddenly a child...

... on feminism and mate- rialism in a time of biopolitics. Robert Faivre is professor of English at Adirondack Community College (State University of New York), Queensbury, New York. He is writing a book on Fredric Jameson and dialectics of reading. Kalliopi Nikolopoulou is associate professor...

... during the crucial mating season. Like others in critical animal studies and diverse scholars more widely, we join Pedersen and Stanescu in seeking to instead “endorse a worldview that accords dignity and worth to nonhuman animals” (263). We eschew playback in order to locate birds and make no attempt...

... the richness of the mate- rial 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? Lehmann uses the art history discipline as a case study to show how material...

... of the sea is molten. I don’t know why it’s so beautiful, but then I realize that this must be pink. This must be orange. I hear the sound of bowhead whales send- ing mating songs across hundreds of miles. Balaena mysticetus. One of them rises from the dark water out of nothing. His...

... remember the logistical difficulties we face. This year, Henrietta is my mate. We have been together twice before, a long time ago. The chicks we had in those seasons did not survive —​the first unhatched and the second snatched by a skua. After that, we did not see each other for many years...

..., Is there a place for the com- mons?, is productive insofar as it invites us to think through the mate- rial specificity of the commons in all of its variations. It calls attention to the paradoxical and contradictory status of the commons as a social and political alternative that can appear only within, yet...

..., and cli- mate change movements, work to reveal and reshape the flows of material agencies across regions, environments, animal bodies, and human bodies —​even as global capitalism and the medical–industrial complex reassert a more convenient ideology of solidly bounded, indi- vidual consumers...

... me coming. He asks me about Selma, and I tell him about Whitey. I give him half of the seeds. “Come, I just made coffee.” In their living room, Emir is filling little half cups with coffee. “Your mate Rizo will never learn how to make good coffee. Look at this.” Emir lifts...