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the minnesota review (2018) 2018 (91): 136–148.
Published: 01 November 2018
...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...
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the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (97): 122–143.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... 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...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (88): 69–82.
Published: 01 May 2017
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 144–152.
Published: 01 November 2015
...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...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (103): 50–75.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Danielle Celermajer; Nathaniel Otjen Abstract Narratives form one dimension of the institutional ecology that shapes what can happen for different types of beings, the modes of relationships available to them, and the possibilities of their lives. This introduction considers the limitations...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (81): 147–158.
Published: 01 November 2013
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 119–130.
Published: 01 May 2013
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 57–75.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... 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...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (77): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2011
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2018) 2018 (91): 56–67.
Published: 01 November 2018
...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...
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the minnesota review (2018) 2018 (91): 111–135.
Published: 01 November 2018
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 94–101.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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 ©...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 126–132.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 102–110.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 75–82.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 104–123.
Published: 01 May 2020
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (98): 73–92.
Published: 01 May 2022
... 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. [email protected]...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (100): 118–131.
Published: 01 May 2023
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (101): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2023
... political contradiction: the exclusion of Jews from European capitalist society. Once Zionism becomes a hegemonic power, its failure to achieve socialism can be considered a failure of cultural revolution. Such understanding of Zionism makes it possible to see it as part of global predicament: a result...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (103): 118–133.
Published: 01 November 2024
... can expand the possibilities of multispecies justice is examined. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Virginia Tech 2024 meat stories Carnocene artivism counterconduct The relentless cultural suppression of the realities of abattoirs, CAFOs, and live export ships...