...Andrew Cole This essay is a critique of actor-network theory (ANT), vitalism, and object-oriented ontology (OOO, or “speculative realism”), as advanced by Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, and Graham Harman and his colleagues. It focuses on the contradiction within these newer philosophies. Each holds...

...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...

..., new materialism inverts its own basis in commodity production and offers a new metaphysics of matter in which the ideology of exchange—which conceals the exploitation of labor in production—is writ large as the ontological basis of “life” as such. The main difference between vitalism and historical...

...Bruce Holsinger This essay investigates the compelling affinities between the premodern mythographic tradition and the various schools of thought grouped under the rubrics of speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and vitalism. Like mythography proper, much of this work entails...

... American cultural studies has had to confront the ways in which neoliberalism, as both ideology and economy, necessarily adjusts the ontological frameworks—such as the working class, the subaltern, the nation, the popular, the post-colonial, and “the people”—that have tended to organize Left political...

... mountaineers on Himalayan peaks, this essay makes a case revealing a cross-cultural and prepsychological aspect of mountaineering that upholds death as a principal component of the sport. A combination of highlander lifestyle, quasi-matriarchy, Tantrist ontology, and neocolonial relationship has historically...

... something radically to do with existentialism. The difference between the existentialism that was current and mine was that mine was informed by Heidegger’s ontological thinking. In those first years the focus of boundary 2 was primarily on the revolution in thinking that was being called...

..., dissonances, politics, and ontologies between anti-Black violence and the nonhuman world, he makes the claim that a rigorous account of chattel slavery and its afterlives demands that we engage nonhuman life-worlds, that we recognize . . . black study more broadly, as species thinking, as ecological thought...

... philosopher Giorgio Agamben at the University of Venice. He has published widely on the ontological sta- tus of the image, imagination, political theology, and philosophy of nature. At the crossroads between medieval philosophy and contem- porary visual studies, Coccia’s investigations push the limits...

..., NY : Punctum Books . O'Rourke Michael . 2011 . “‘Girls Welcome!!!’ Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Queer Theory.” Speculations 2 : 276 – 312 . Reprinted in Kolozova and Joy 2016: 159–97 . Vermeulen Timotheus . 2014 . “Borrowed Energy” (interview...

... Pheng . 1996 . “Mattering.” diacritics 26 , no. 1 : 108 – 39 . Coole Diana Frost Samantha , eds. 2010 . New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Deleuze Gilles . (1983) 1986 . Cinema 1: The Movement Image...

... individuals always exist and are sustained and that make possible their functioning and flourishing. This relational orientation has critical implications for the question and study of narrative, insofar as the shift from individual to relational or flow ontologies presents its own distinctive challenges...

... that 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 par- ticular, in a series of recent theoretical works, the “savage ontology of life,” as Foucault names it, has been posed against the “limits” of polit...

... Whiteman  57 of this museum —​rendered redundant as much by shifts in the episte- mology of nature as by declining attendance and use of this space. My photos are not only intended as a record of a dying epistemic and ontological practice that many of us would not have known about to begin...

... that has to do with what one could call in abbreviated fashion choosing ethics over ontology. It is as if his understandable reluctance with respect to Heidegger moved Derrida progressively to Levinas, despite the distance that separated them on other grounds...

... : Duke University Press . Hinton Peta Liu Xin . 2015 . “The Im/possibility of Abandonment in New Materialist Ontologies.” Australian Feminist Studies 30 , no. 84 : 128 – 45 . Jordan Chris . 2009 –current. “Midway: Message from the Gyre.” www.chrisjordan.com/gallery...

... .” Dissent 56 ( 4 ): 122 – 27 . Johnston Adrian . 2007 . “ Slavoj Žižek’s Hegelian Reformation: Giving a Hearing to The Parallax View .” Diacritics 37 ( 1 ): 3 – 20 . ———. 2008 . Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity . Evanston, IL : Northwestern...

... ontologies stimulated by the economic crises of the contemporary world order. In his lectures of the late 1970s, Foucault expands and revises his earlier theorization of biopower and biopolitics in an exploration of minnesota review 86 (2016) DOI 10.1215/00265667-3457997  © 2016 Virginia...

... the minnesota review metaphysics for a kind of process ontology. Fair enough—but that move was done better earlier by thinkers such as Bergson and Whitehead: there are rich mines of conceptual resources for biocentrists in the former...

... the review essays in this or recent past issues. Janell Watson, Editor Brown, Nicholas. 2019. Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Dufourmantelle, Anne. 2019. In Praise of Risk , translated by Steven Miller. New York: Fordham University Press. La Berge...