...Robert McKay © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Works Cited Adams Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory . New York : Continuum , 1990 . McKay Robert . “‘ Identifying with the Animals’: Language, Subjectivity and the Animal Politics...

...Vera Bühlmann; Felicity Colman; Iris van der Tuin © 2017 Virginia Tech 2017 Works Cited Arendt Hannah . 1958 . The Human Condition . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Ayache Elie . 2015 . The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View on the Market . New York...

...Michael DuPuis © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Works Cited Arizona State University Office of Public Affairs . “ Budget Cuts .” Arizona State University . Feb. 2009 . < http://asu.edu/budgetcuts/ >. 5 May 2009 . Arizona State University Office of Initiatives . “ New...

...Mark B. Feldman Mark B. Feldman Where the Wild Things Aren’t: Animals in New York City On top of the cantilevered entrance to Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum of American Art, an elegant modernist box, rests an unruly eagle’s nest (Fig. 1). Made of interlocking sticks and...

... Politics of Emotion . New York : Routledge . Altieri Charles . 2003 . The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Armstrong Isobel . 2000 . The Radical Aesthetic . Malden, MA : Blackwell . Armstrong Paul . 2013...

...Jennifer Cotter New materialism claims to offer a postanthropocentric advance over historical materialism by displacing human labor with the “vital agency” of all matter: from humans to objects and machines. By equating people with the objects they produce and positing the autopoiesis of things...

...Lauren Berlant © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Lauren Berlant Affect Is the New Trauma Here’s a tale about a time an accident led to an incident that is still shaping up as an event. Once I was at a conference. The conference was on feelings—on how the dynamics of their circulation...

...Steven G. Kellman © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Steven G. Kellman The Return of the Thirties (on Morris Dickstein’s Dancing in the Dark [New York: Norton, 2009]; Peter Conn’s The American 1930s: A Literary History [Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009]; and David Welky’s...

...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...

...John Marsh © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 John Marsh Criticism in the Iron Mills: New Working-Class Studies and the Class Turn (on Gavin Jones, American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 [Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008]; John Russo and...

...Jason Berger This essay examines how Slavoj Žižek’s conception of fantasy may open up new approaches for political, literary, and aesthetic criticism. Taking In Defense of Lost Causes (2008) as a case study, I demonstrate how Žižek’s method provides a much-needed consideration of form. Moreover, I...

...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...

...Jill McDonough © 2014 Jill McDonough 2014 Jill McDonough New Haven Every so often, often in fall, we remember that public greens were once our burial grounds. For hanged men, poxy corpses, slaves: the other, from when the green was on the edge of town. In New...

...Joseph Darda In the post-New Deal era, the social location of the intellectual became one of paradox and anxiety. Understood as integral to a cultural center, organizing society through the dissemination of ideas, intellectual work emerged as the unlocatable nucleus of US culture. Three recent...

...Graham Owen Though the flooding of New Orleans was the result of shoddy construction of the city’s levees, the city’s recovery was to be not through enlightened government initiative but by frontier self-reliance, “personal responsibility.” Returning inhabitants, like pioneers, were to homestead on...

...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...

...Marguerite Nguyen This article weaves together interviews, cultural studies scholarship, and a personal experience of New Orleans to interpret narratives of Vietnamese Americans in the city pre- and post-Katrina. New Orleans is home to one of the densest concentrations of Vietnamese Americans in...

...–1978 . Edited by Senellart Michel . Translated by Burchell Graham . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . Hardt Michael Negri Antonio . 2004 . Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire . New York : Penguin . Harvey David . 2006 . Spaces of Global...

... with the methodology in single- and coauthored pieces, I have further developed diffractive reading for the immanent epistemology of new materialism. This essay demonstrates through a diffractive reading practice how incorporation and externality, as well as ecology and entanglement, play important...