...Shailja Patel; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair Copyright © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020 Shailja Patel What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement How do you, the migrant, see Us, the Other? asked the man last night, after my talk in Venice. Guess the race of Us. Guess...

... Bulletin 25 ( Winter 1978-9 ): 51 - 3 . Macdonald Larry . `` The New American Movement .'' Cong. Rec. 5 Sept. 1975 : 97 - 8 . MacLean Judy . New American Movement: An Introductory Course . Chicago : New American Movement , 1976 . NIC Political Education...

...Morgan Adamson This essay analyzes the aesthetics and politics of resistance in the work of Chilean artist Francisco Tapia (aka Papas Fritas) who burned $500 million worth of student debt promissory notes and presented them to the student movement as a work of art in May 2014. Analyzing the art...

....” Starting in the early 1990s, however, a deep shift occurred in the way the body was interpreted. A new movement cast tremendous doubt on the hegemony of language and instead advocated a performative, pictorial, and affective approach — the so-called material turn — which encompassed all...

...Martin Puchner In response to Max Brzezinski’s critique of my role in the New Modernist Studies, an alleged movement whose founding document I am said to have authored ( Poetry of the Revolution [2006]), I use this movement as a test case for the two methods under discussion (the question of how...

...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...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Jodi Dean discusses her career as poststructuralist political theorist, activist, and blogger. She has written on Slavoj Zizek, political solidarity, neoliberalism, media politics, media theory, the Occupy movement, and communism. Long concerned with the issue...

...Max Brzezinski This article evaluates the methods and ideological positions that define the critical movement known as the New Modernist Studies (NMS). It treats the NMS as characteristic of recent attempts to politicize aesthetics within the corporate university. The piece argues that the NMS has...

... feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements...

... pointless directionless tautology, I suggest, by projecting an interminable imperative to upward movement or climbing. Acts of overcoming embed themselves in matter and across time by the radical vertical orientation of over in super-, hyper - and summit : what Nietzsche calls “the longest hour” of the sun...

...Ashna Ali; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair This interview with Igiaba Scego, renowned Italian author and journalist of Somali descent, explores the relationship between letteratura della migrazione , the italophone migrant literary movement of the 1990s and early 2000s...

... later expanded the term to include South Asian “migrants with attitude.” This article further expands the current framings of migritude by linking it to the historical movement of kala pani , or nineteenth-century Indian indenture. The idea of kala pani migritude reveals an engagement with clandestine...

..., such as Britain and Italy, as well as South Asian and Caribbean diasporas. This body of work reveals intersections between complex histories of colonialism, immigration, globalization, and racism against migrants and highlights differences in region, class, gender, and sexuality that constrain the movement...

... that describe the West during the late twentieth century, particularly those that erupt from Salvador Allende’s brief presidency in Chile and the many confrontations between neoliberalism, indigenism, and political activism. Following the movement of visual representation to sculpture, I trace how Vicuña...

... militant films determined to skewer both the forces of political reactionism and the reformist wing of the labor movement. The first category is best personified by the now classic Kes (1969), while The Big Flame (1969) typifies the more didactic strand in Loach's work. Ironically enough, the Thatcher...

... regarding close reading and “the New Criticism,” the movement associated with it, and at how the practice has figured in Anglo-American literary studies over the course of the past century. It turns then to how a certain idea of “close reading” has come to figure in the discourses of the digital humanities...

..., 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...

... of Christianity. While Engels argued for the latter, Luxemburg and Kautsky argued for the former. Some of the basic assumptions of these arguments persist in biblical scholarship: the appeal of Christianity to the lower classes, the ground-shaking nature of the movement, but also the betrayal involved in becoming...

... as they took place largely outside the direction of the unions and the classical institutions of the workers’ movement. Moreover, they focused their antagonistic force on severing the link between demands for higher wages and levels of productivity—a correlation enforced by the unions. This recast...

... these movement-oriented analyses of culture to the pressing concerns of the moment. I produced a historically-grounded study of popular representations of mid-twentieth century American mass politics. In retrospect, it seems a project more appropriate for an older generation who came up against Fiedler...