...Ted McLoof © 2011 Ted McLoof 2011 Ted McLoof You’re a Handsome Devil, What’s Your Name? The woman across the street from Alex’s mother’s house wears curl- ers in her hair as she hangs billowy pale-blue sheets from a clothes- line in her yard. It’s five o’clock and Alex wonders why...

... of the lawgiver in political theory and popular culture and the politics and culture of emergency. Honig defines politics in terms of agonism, or struggle; she argues against a politics of convergence and consensus. However, agonism does not only name conflict but also names cooperation and mutuality...

...Benjamin Noys The work of Marx has often been treated as an ontology and metaphysics of labor, and this “ontology” has often been resisted in the name of life. In particular, in a series of recent theoretical works, the “savage ontology of life,” as Foucault names it, has been posed against...

... apertures through which the American body politic is projected, namely, speech acts. The stakes in examining speech acts, for which I turn to poetry and the work of Solmaz Sharif and Rob Halpern, involves thinking about the commons. For one, because liberal democratic identity revolves around a deliberative...

... collection Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology (2005) is designed to open up North Atlantic–dominated cultural studies to approaches to the study of culture from other parts of the world. “Internationalizing” names a process (motivated by epistemic and political caution) that the editors see...

... and Drew Barrymore film 50 First Dates (2004) as an example of the utopian film genre that Stanley Cavell identifies as “the comedy of remarriage.” It further draws upon the insights of Alain Badiou to theorize a larger schema of related practices that I name the “evental genres” before exploring in some...

...” offer a tentative name — serve as options for projects in literature, visual art, and related modes of cultural production that work to describe, investigate, and at times interrupt the conditions of neoliberalism. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 aesthetics drift lateral agency neoliberalism...

...Rob Wilkie Video games have become a significant aspect of the technology industry, yet they have also become for many the image of an emerging contradiction said to reside at the heart of digital capitalism, namely that capitalism is no longer based upon the exploitation of workers' labor...

... life. The emergence of social media poetics — and, specifically, what I term digital realism — demonstrates the use of the confessional mode in social media. Digital realism gives name to a process of literary production that obscures the lines between life and writing. In this essay, I explore how...

... but religious, any cosmopolitanism worthy of the name must offer a model of inclusivity and universalism that both recognizes and reckons with the substantive differences that separate varieties of religious and secular experience. © 2011 Virginia Tech 2011 Works Cited Albright Madeleine . 2003...

... 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. Peter Hitchcock Commonists like Us We know that the commons is no longer a notational device for trag- edy in Garrett Hardin s infamous...

... by the same name, a post-1960s “ideology that justifies engagement in capitalism.” A neoliberal ethos and disposition animated theory and possessed theorists, as well as spaces that circulated theory, such as the University of Minnesota's Theory and History of Literature book series, theory journals...

... Jacques . 1982 . Margins of Philosophy . Translated by Bass Alan . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . –––. 1995 . “ Passions: ‘An Oblique Offering.’ ” In On the Name . Translated by Wood David Leavey John P. Jr. McLeod Ian . Stanford : Stanford University Press...

... next to another a being, a number of breaths, breathing a number of lives The poem wrote itself: it was light * Candlelight. We stood here, circled for Deah, Yusor, and Razan. Candlelight. We stand in the same circles for names we don t know yet. My Twitter is blowing up (as a Muslim I can t say...

..., their voices quaking the earth as they dragged his father’s corpse to a faraway place. Abdul Qasim remembers feeding his mother’s goats when rockets ripped the roof of their house, when his mother, now dead, choked the air with his name. Umm Salimah remembers watching her son play...

...Nat Wisehart Nat Wisehart Liminal Space For a year I was between names and would rather not be called by anything. But Oliver tried to settle me. Hunched over his laptop, he scrolled through the alphabet on page after page of baby name sites. On his couch, under the same fleece blanket, our legs...

...Kevin King © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 36 the minnesota review Kevin King Tom Delay I love your name so much I can’t stop saying it. It always comes out clearly and slowly, which makes it true to itself...

... Jesus saves and the devil lies to rebuke him like Cora taught Rosa in the name of her granddaughter, my mother, in the name of Ochún, the youngest of the saints or the grown-up baby girls wanting to recall the days before this pissy-punk carved his mug onto their frontal lobes. June Jordan said I m...

... to try to make sense of this, to try to give it a name. This is what I m doing trying to make sense of this. Hoping that by placing words onto an experience, I can master it through description. By that I mean: understand. It s important to name things, it s important to know things names. I found...

... safety among our fellows, becomes concrete. In the prison we can read the day-to-day dramatization of what a majority of the people are ready to see (or ready to refuse to witness) done to a minority of other citizens in the name of civil order. It’s no wonder we don’t look very often...