...Doran Larson © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Doran Larson The People vs. The People No institution expresses the relationship of the state to the sovereign people so graphically as the prison. In the prison the collective power that we relegate to civil employees, to ensure our...

...Jessica Rae Bergamino © 2014 Jessica Rae Bergamino 2014 Jessica Rae Bergamino Sex Dream with People Watching Here is the net. Here is the knife you’ll use to cut yourself from it. Here is the temptation to stay. Here: a shell the color of your modesty: a fan...

...David Welch © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 David Welch Ways with We Mirror People [after Jack Spicer] I wanted to touch the bell because I wanted to touch a body.   I wanted to say O, I do not know what to not do with the body, then the sounds came...

... of different forms of bad affect needs to be factored into Ahmed’s critical discussions of specific unhappy types—the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, and the melancholic migrant—within her chosen contexts of literature, film, and popular culture. “Ask Me If I Care”: Work, Injustice, and Other People’s...

...Michelle M. Tokarczyk This article takes as its starting point the need for solidarity among working-class people and the fact that such solidarity often breaks down across racial lines. It reads Gran Torino and Frozen River as simultaneously disclosing class issues and erasing them, particularly...

...Sophia A. McClennen; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock The violence that surrounded the 2016 Standing Rock protests was clearly a sign of a militarized police state protecting profit over people, but it was also a reminder of a long legacy of systemic racism toward the first peoples...

...Susan Hegeman; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock The concept of the commons is central to an argument that connects indigenous people and their struggles both to global politics and to radical reconceptualizations of the relationships among knowledges, resources, and human communities...

... of methods, frameworks, and feedback systems in which projects emerge out of process and evolve from within communities and with people, rather than being made for or about them. Co-creation, we contend, offers a hands-on heuristic to explore the expressive capacities and possible forms of agency in systems...

... provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability. Whitney Stark Assembled Bodies Reconfiguring Quantum Identities Introduction I invest...

...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work...

... discussions of the commons and protest more generally. Drawing on short readings of Sarah Schulman’s People in Trouble and David Feinberg’s Queer and Loathing , this article invokes the importance of not forgetting the power of protest during ACT-UP to envision the world as something other than...

... of many people. In an era characterized by openly belligerent nationalism and anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, this special focus section aims to unpack migritude cultural production in an international context to study and combat these violent trends. Copyright © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020...

... as the art of persuading people—at the levels of perception and sensibility as well as reason—that they are Earthlings. Her current project considers the possibility that a kind of materialism informs Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass . Bennett’s previous monographs include Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment...

... literature and visual arts should be “connected with real life” and the world, “not clustered in the library where they have no communication with the experience of ordinary people.” He points out that different from the previously insular, Eurocentric world, the international art world now has produced...

..., a city of risk —a neoliberal experiment at the scale of over three hundred thousand people. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 risk levees neoliberalism Katrina recovery Works Cited Beck Ulrich . 2000 . The Brave New World of Work . Translated by Camiller Patrick . Cambridge...

...Prathna Lor Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter serve millions of people who populate digital space with autobiographical avatars and simulacra. Digital selves are curated, edited, and maintained in a perpetual process of digitizing life experience in order to produce an imagined...

...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...

... 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...

... are being published and there seems to be a lot more pressure on sales. I know you've thought about it and written about it; maybe you could bring us up to date on what you think about the state of scholarly publishing? Wissoker I think even people who've been in publishing longer than I have...