...Bo Earle; Margret Grebowicz “By doing we forego”, Nietzsche writes in The Gay Science ; specifically, we forego what he calls the “consolation of conclusions.” Accordingly, Nietzsche’s signature concept of overcoming is not a proper concept but a meta- or super-concept that allows purposive action...

... as a convergence of the values of performance, speed, and eӽciency, in perfect compliance with neoliberal fantasies of the individual who overcomes adversity as well as with biopower’s demand for docile bodies. This essay explores the death of top speed climber Ueli Steck as a site for rethinking the Anthropocene...

...Peter Hitchcock; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article explores the continuities and schisms between the politics of the commons and communism. Broadly, it aims to challenge the assumption that commons discourse is a subsumption or overcoming of the communist idea. Instead it offers...

...Margret Grebowicz; Zachary Low Reyna Personhood, language, and voice are heavily culturally overdetermined categories, particularly today, when they appear to many posthumanist critical eyes as saturated with anthropocentrism. But the answer is not to avoid or “overcome” them. The working...

... overcome the problems in such useful and indispensable textbooks and anthologies. The article asks whether Arabic writing in English can be given no more and no less than the level of attention other Englishes enjoy in our global village today. © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Works Cited Abu...

... distribution, and family law. She challenges the democratic state to acknowledge and overcome its oligarchical and kleptocratic practices. Stevens proposes a number of concrete measures with the aim of achieving a more egalitarian and just society. Rather than concern itself with regulating marriage, the state...

... translation. A tiny little book, The Open is ostensibly about the (hu)man/animal divide, but geared toward two particularly Heideggerian moments: the difference between animal and human being and the post-history mantra of overcoming. In this work, Agamben’s prose, enabled by a brilliant...

..., demonstrating that each theoretical approach presents, either explicitly or indirectly, an elaboration of aesthetic perception as “a mechanism for overcoming alienation” (129). The very breadth and flexibility of Leach’s concept of camouflage enable us...

... the resistance to theory ever be overcome? For de Man, the answer is no: “Nothing can overcome the resistance to theory since theory is itself this resistance” (de Man 19). De Man’s foundational essay is a tour-de-force piece of logic, a way to claim for theory the power of resistance while overcoming...

.... The queer “yes” to the future replaces inheritance’s conservatism with the unhappy 132 the minnesota review revolutionary’s refusal to either maintain or hand down the status quo: “In this yes, the future is not given content: it is not that the future is imagined as the overcoming of misery...

..., addressed, and requested? Or does demonstrating against precarious existence involve specific demands rather than requests or “prayers”? But then do such appeals always assume that precarity is a negative condition, so that the requests only seek the eventual effacement and (dialectical) overcoming...

... of longer-term residents, the link between them is not uncontested. T. R. Johnson, a professor of English but also a well-known host of a jazz show on the local New Orleans radio station WWOZ, speaks to the power of music in healing wounds and overcoming traumatic 58 the minnesota review...

... floorboard fiber, which allowed researchers the wherewithal to study a darker phenom- enology. This meant that the usual bias toward informatics (docu- menting signals of various kinds and interpreting these signals accord- ing to various hermeneutic theories) was radically overcome...

... associations or whatever they happen to be, and trying to weld them into some healthy community. Plenty of difficulties would arise, but you try to overcome them. Some framework, some means of planning, and you can go on to describe these to the extent that you like. Many people think you...

... of critique within ongoing democratic cultures. While I don’t mean to act as though there’s some sort of progressive energy at play that will guarantee that exclusions will become the focus of critique and ultimately be dispelled or overcome, I believe that those who...

... productive postmodern exemplars.6 It would be a decided boon for animal studies if more scholars in the field were to overcome their infatuation with Deleuzean dicta—they’d certainly have nothing to lose but rhetorical thrills and much to gain in the way of zoologic...

... overcome this devotion in Volatile Bodies, but he nevertheless discovers, in traversing the differ- ent perspectives on Jacques Derrida, Foucault, and others, that there are definitely moments that allow the posthuman to stand out more strongly than would ever be the case in Butler’s work. Cheah...

... of any kind of data; empiricism was the derogatory label which accompanied that form of distrust. Overcoming these obstacles was by no means easy, and it took several years to acquire the confidence to pursue research against my instincts. Even...

... transformation that in fact relied on an analysis of culture that held to the spirit of Fiedler’s legacy while overcoming its cold-war animus. After looking hard for places to read more of what Williams and others engaged with, I landed in a cultural studies department, one of the few that still provided...

... understanding of the means of agency and the sites of negotiation available to native and nonnative English speakers alike will help in overcoming this common hurdle. Although one cannot argue against the realities of colonialism (and neocolonialism), it is problematic to portray English monolithi...