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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 75–82.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the material possibilities of “common singularity” to entwine and illuminate specific traditions of radical thought, which might speak to a commonism in more than name. Copyright © 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 commons Marxism communism singularity Communist Manifesto Works Cited Caffentzis...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 95–105.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Amy Hollywood Through a reading of the dynamic structure of Jacques Derrida’s “Passions: ‘An Oblique Offering,’” the essay suggests that the relationship between Derrida and the Christian tradition might best be understood not through what Derrida reads—Pseudo-Dionysius, Meister Eckhart...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 127–140.
Published: 01 May 2011
... resistance. Given the fact that neoliberalism emerged as a force for social restructuring in Latin America at least a decade prior to its appearance in the United States and Europe, some of the insights of Latin American cultural studies scholars might well offer productive critical avenues for cultural...
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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (79): 53–77.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the terrain of historical analysis and, as a consequence, recalibrates what formal and political hermeneutics might entail. Such an approach provides a means to “return to the political” via a new perspective on the relation between art and historical context. I conclude by building on Žižek’s Lacanian...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (83): 153–162.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Calina Ciobanu This article argues that Margaret Atwood’s postapocalyptic MaddAddam trilogy, composed of the novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood , and MaddAddam , imagines how humankind might come to reconstitute itself at the end of the Anthropocene—that is, once it has decimated...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (77): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., I suggest that we might in turn use another formalization, that of A. J. Greimas's semiotic rectangle, to understand a movement that occurs in Lacan's work from the three that dominated his earlier “structuralist” thinking—prominently on display in his early 1950s “Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (77): 143–161.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Justin Neuman Is cosmopolitanism compatible with religion? This essay explores what it might mean to cultivate a sensibility of religious cosmopolitanism through the study of narrative literature. I begin by analyzing the intersection of these terms—the religious and the cosmopolitan —across...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (102): 124–144.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Rebecca M. Herzig Abstract Trigger warnings, statements alerting readers, listeners, or viewers to the presence of content that might revive distressing memories, have become a flash point in recent discussions about the US academy. Providing a genealogy of the concept and practice in US colleges...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 263–268.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and
historical process (such as an ethical project of animal advocacy)
cannot easily step outside of it. The ideals that one might want
to marshal as part of such a project—progress, generosity,
responsibility, modesty or self-restraint, civility, culture...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 141–155.
Published: 01 May 2011
... culture and society. This was more productive
than I might have expected. Mexico City’s avenues hum with the life
of street vendors who plunge into traffic at the first hint of a red light,
so the idea of a moral panic built up around squeegee kids eager to
clean your windshield for a buck...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (88): 116–126.
Published: 01 May 2017
... to
“off-load” tasks that might have previously been performed by hand.
Qualiants who entered the laboratory were still asked to wear record-
ing devices and plug themselves into various apparatuses, but the data
“collected” during experiments were actually untraceable in these
individual data sets...
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the minnesota review (2008) 2008 (70): 207–213.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of nineteenth-century culture are
already figures of proto-camp, less likely to enforce a theologically
stern moral code than to provide ironic, deliciously forbidden forms
of entertainment. If the unwary were dispossessed of their souls, it
might well be in a figurative...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 14.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Susan B. A. Somers-Willett © 2013 Susan B. A. Somers-Willett 2013 Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Downtown Zoetrope
When viewed in a certain light,
some bodies astonish.
Just as you, passenger, and I might
marvel at the operator-less subway booths...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (67): 36.
Published: 01 November 2006
...
on a plastic raft, no sharks
in the water. I was thinking, Tom,
that your name might be French—deLay,
and any association of your surname
with the retardation of a progressive agenda
might be wholly unmerited.
I’m imagining I might see...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (69): 199–205.
Published: 01 November 2007
...,
was sometimes seen patting the tops of fire hydrants, and once,
grasping the head of his wife, mistook her for a hat. Sacks, having
eliminated problems with visual acuity, put Dr. P. through a series of
neurological tests, none of which indicated what might be the source
of Dr. P.’s condition...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (82): 52.
Published: 01 May 2014
...
in the world. You are backpacking around
a spired and bleak-skied European city.
On each corner, pigeons and statuary.
Each stone mouth reminds you of the lover
you left across an ocean and a dozen rivers,
the lover who might be, probably is, thinking
of you as you order the pain...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 18–19.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Susan B. A. Somers-Willett © 2013 Susan B. A. Somers-Willett 2013 Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Uptown Zoetrope
When viewed in a certain light,
some bodies astonish me.
Just as you, fellow stranger, and I
might marvel at the ruin
of these operator-less booths...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 231–242.
Published: 01 November 2009
... contrasts dramatically
with the urbane form of the building it sits on. Outside the Whitney
and inside in the sculpture garden there is more evidence of animal
activity that might seem out of place in this vast city, often assumed
to be a place where “the natural [has] ceased to exist” (Koolhaas...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (68): 137–146.
Published: 01 May 2007
... these premises would necessarily step into the light. For example,
say we are considering the first line of Shakespeare’s first sonnet, “From
fairest creatures we desire increase.” We might plausibly gloss this line as
saying “We want the most beautiful things to reproduce.” But in asserting...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 107–118.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in an increasingly specialized and differentiated society,”
its ostensible weakness might make it uniquely “capable of theorizing
social powerlessness in a manner unrivaled by other forms of cultural
praxis” (2).3 Ngai further characterizes modern and contemporary
art’s situation as one of “restricted...
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