..., the two met and discussed on national television the nature of politics and higher education, with predictable obtuseness on the part of O’Reilly. Nothing was concluded or conceded, and arguably nothing was learned. Yet both did portend a fundamental change to the operation of American political life...

... hypothesis of this article is that, in its insistence on the primacy of the “radically other,” contemporary posthumanist political thought forecloses an important route to one of its own central goals: building paradigms for thinking about shared, multispecies worldings. The authors argue that the basis...

...Nathalie Blanc Nathalie Blanc The Strange Agencies and the Seaside (on Stacy Alaimo, Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times) Let us start with the following observation: we are immersed in mat- ter, we are invaded by streams of living and technological...

... cité . Paris : PUF , 2002 . ---. Violence et civilité . Paris : Galilée , 2010 . Bologna Sergo . “ The Tribe of Moles .” Italy: Autonomia—Post-political Politics . Spec. issue of Semiotext(e) 3.3 ( 1980 ): 36 - 61 . Hardt Michael Negri Antonio . Empire...

..., and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies . Durham : Duke UP , 1989 . ---. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1995 . Kant Immanuel . The Critique of Pure Reason . 1787. Trans. and ed. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood...

...Jennifer Duprey; Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo In a way, the Western tradition of political theorizing has been defined, with very few exceptions (say, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels or Niccolò Machiavelli), by a strategy of disavowal in dealing with the pervasiveness of violence in political life...

... as a Political Animal An Interview with Tariq Ali Born in 1943 in Lahore, then British India, to communist parents, London-based writer and filmmaker Tariq Ali moved to the United Kingdom to study at Oxford during the 1960s, where as a student he continued his involvement in leftist politics...

...Arthur Redding The figure of the fugitive woman radical has occupied a curiously important place in the American popular imagination. Early depictions of women whose political sympathies have drawn them into radical activism and terrorist plots include Susan Isaacson in E. L. Doctorow’s The Book...

...Leo Parascondola Leo Parascondola Crossing the Remedial Bridge: Political Economy, Contingent Labor, and Differentiation Strategies in Higher Education This essay analyzes the creation of a particular type of adult literacy education, the college preparation "bridge...

... . Nietzsche Friedrich . Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe . Ed. Colli Giorgio Montinari Mazzino . Vol. 12 . Berlin : de Gruyter , 1980 . Timothy Campbell and Federico Luisetti On Contemporary French and Italian Political Philosophy: An Interview with Roberto Esposito...

... consolidated its brand by strategically making anachronistic and shopworn claims for the relevance of modernist aesthetics for postmodern politics. The methodological hallmarks of the movement include the liberalization of previously radical political thought, the reduction of past theoretical interventions...

...Bruce Robbins © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Bruce Robbins Infrastructure as Political Unconscious (on David L. Pike’s Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworld of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001 [Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007]) “You could quite easily drive a car right across the north...

...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...

... , 1931 . ---. Voltaire! Voltaire! New York : Simon & Schuster , 1961 . ---. The Werewolf of Paris . New York : Farrar & Rinehart , 1933 . Foley Barbara . Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 . Durham : Duke UP , 1993...

...John Conley © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Work Cited Althusser Louis . “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” Lenin and Philosophy . Trans. Ben Brewster . New York : Monthly Review P , 1971 . 121 - 76 . John Conley Against Heroism: On Politically...

...Janell Watson © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Janell Watson Introduction: Franco-Italian Political Theory The American engagement with late twentieth-century French philosophy and criticism initially focused on questions of language and text. Barthes, Derrida, and Bataille...

... 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...

...Darko Suvin Poetry is approached as topological cognition, with its furthest horizon being communism. In alienated times, the poet-creator participates in politics as an antipolitics, by suturing conceptual thought to immediate sensual experiences. The author develops this horizon by emancipatory...

...Janell Watson In this interview, political theorist Bonnie Honig discusses her career and her influential writings on contemporary democratic theory, the politics of immigration, the figure of the foreigner, the figure of Antigone, and the tensions between sovereignty and law in times of emergency...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Jodi Dean discusses her career as poststructuralist political theorist, activist, and blogger. She has written on Slavoj Zizek, political solidarity, neoliberalism, media politics, media theory, the Occupy movement, and communism. Long concerned with the issue...