...Mladen Lazić Some of the basic ideas from Darko Suvin’s book Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia are analyzed in the essay. Suvin’s hypothesis that Yugoslav self-management represents a unique historical experience of the possibility to set the foundations...

.... Through analysis of worlds made possible in science fiction, the author builds on his previous theoretical work to develop what he calls “a method for radical utopian cognition”—one that sees cultural cognition based in logic, emotions, and a utopian frame in which destiny or resolution is not dictated...

... of quantum physics, and by dehierarchizing the necessity of linear bodies through time, it becomes possible to reconfigure structures of value, longevity, and subjectivity in ways explicitly aligned with anti-oppression practices and identity politics. Combining intersectionality and quantum physics can...

...Walt Hunter This essay considers how poems and lyrical prose by J. H. Prynne, Kofi Awoonor, and Natasha Trethewey examine the conditions of possibility for a global subject in the light of finality: that which may no longer be prevented nor undone. Revising the tradition of the locodescriptive...

... of literary texts pertaining to world literature, the genre of Utopia, and beyond. Furthermore, it also engages in a highly stimulating discussion on the postcolonial possibilities of literary “mapping” practices and the transdisciplinary scope of spatial literary studies. priyankatripathi@iitp.ac.in...

...Herschel Farbman Socrates haunts apologies for the humanities, and the ghost is not entirely benevolent. This essay emphasizes the dangers he represents, not because it is any more possible to banish Socrates in death than it was in life, but in order to bring his great lucidity about the dangers...

... examples from Bertolt Brecht’s theory, Friedrich Hölderlin’s verse, and Franco Fortini’s criticism. From Arthur Rimbaud on poetry is freedom as possibility of things being otherwise, a swerve from and against the dominant lore. © 2018 Virginia Tech 2018 poetry politics Friedrich Hölderlin Arthur...

... articulations of the common. The possibilities of a common that is alert to the limits of natural resources and operates in relation to them are described in Ivan Illich’s 1973 essay “Energy and Equity.” This article takes Illich’s essay as a beginning point for creating an energy commons today. Copyright ©...

... it is and to necessarily dwell in the utopian possibilities opened up by this particular queer commons. Copyright © 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 ACT-UP queer theory commons utopia protest Works Cited Bradway Tyler . 2017 . Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading . New...

... this perspective, the lyric qualities of Smith’s verse are social not because they prescribe a proper collective identity but because they invent modes of relation that transform social death into the possibility of another way of living. This is the uncommons: a reckoning with the racialized political economy...

... the material possibilities of “common singularity” to entwine and illuminate specific traditions of radical thought, which might speak to a commonism in more than name. Copyright © 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 commons Marxism communism singularity Communist Manifesto Works Cited Caffentzis...

... possibilities and their potential impact on readers in contexts where racist, anti-immigrant discourses dominate. This article explores the scope and stakes of migritude life writing through the example of Il mio viaggio della speranza ( My Voyage of Hope ), a 2011 memoir by Bay Mademba, who recounts his...

... 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...

... the acceptance of alternative, even enchanted realities; like certain strains of modern analytic philosophy and science fiction, it posits possible worlds and builds them out from within by acts of intellection, extended metaphorical conceits, and provisional bids for our faith. More than the result of a loose...

.... At the end, it offers some general reflections on methods, past and possibly future, in literary studies. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 close reading digital humanities Franco Moretti literary studies New Criticism Works Cited Brooks Cleanth . 1979 . “The New Criticism.” Sewanee...

... analysis—offers an exemplary case of an other side to the study of culture that is the verso of both proper disciplined intellectual labors and the imaginary Other of cultural studies. Lacan was long interested in the productive possibilities of mathematical formalizations. I argue that it is precisely...

...Susan Rich © 2020 Susan Rich 2020 Susan Rich Outline for Freshman Comp Essay Question at issue: Did you agree to an abortion to appease a sister? Question at issue: What did you fear? Question at issue: Are a bomb and an abortion detonated the same? Possible thesis statement: Maybe...

... at the end of the world (2020: 180 81; emphasis in original). Any account of the end of the world, Bennett argues, must be routed through Black studies. Bennett is making a claim that there is both heuristic and causal, metaphorical and material, a possibility for what happens when we think simultaneously...

..., evacuating space/time with an arrangement of letters that appear more haphazard than intelligible. Is it possible to be “nowhere”? On the road with a friend trying to get from one place to another, one could arrive “in the middle of nowhere”—which holds open...

... beyond itself or as less than death (or possibly more, although this extension of finitude excludes, as it rests on, the significance of death). Quentin Meillassoux, the other philosopher usually identified along with Harman as a founder of speculative realism (which Har- man later reshaped...