..., however far or close, shape the contours, the possibilities and dangers, of the poem's immediate vicinity. Far from offering spectatorial mastery to the poet, however, the hill is transformed into the ground and habitation of precarious life. The hill makes visible an alternative trajectory...

... of political speech, enunciation, and utterance. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 precarity precarious life prayer Jean-Luc Nancy political speech Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. 1978 . “Music and Language: A Fragment.” In Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music , translated...

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... is not the only party guilty of eliding the economic. Smith’s last chapter, “Precarious Politics,” charges the academic liberal left with a similar inattention, mostly through a biting critique of Judith Butler’s Precarious Life: The Power and Mourning of Violence (Verso, 2004). According...

..., prompting an abrupt shift in priorities and an imminent relocation to another state. Not all the pressures on creating intellectual space are financial ones. My collaboration with the children s bookseller likewise reached a detour, when their precarious life conditions including long COVID and severe...

... Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Butler, Judith. 2004. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. New York: Verso. Frege, Gottlob. 1985. Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, edited by Peter Geach and Max Black. Oxford, UK: Blackwell...

...Anne-Lise François This essay draws on the example of Emily Dickinson's experiments with meter and line to review the multiple valences that attach to precariousness, a term that is sometimes synonymous with précarité and the casualization of labor but that also carries a less negatively charged...

... Vicuña’s poetic practice of using etymology and philology in the 1984 work Palabrarmás in order to show how tempo and temporality are related to the precariousness of lived life as a social arrangement that is itself organized by the engagement of sense in the coupling and differenti- ating...

... and belonging in East Africa, after a Kenyan Asian journalist wrote about Kikuyu privilege in Kenya. Together, these stories tell of untenable borders and fortified borders. They tell of anxieties, both warranted and misguided, toward borders. They most certainly tell of the increasing global precarious- ness...

.... Rodríguez, Richard T. Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics. Durham: Duke UP, 2009. Ross, Andrew. Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. New York: NYU P, 2009. Shivani, Anis. Anatolia and Other Stories. New York: Black Lawrence, 2009. Shukin...

... of social conflict whose aims are not only the seizure of the factory as the specific site of the production of surplus value, but also the reappropriation of the whole of “life,” a move outside of the factory walls and into the spaces of everyday life. The importance...

... approaches memorialization in three ways: first, through the repetition of life spans (e.g., 1960 88); 130 the minnesota review second, through the depiction of a series of funeral services some glimpsed by characters and others directly participated in; and finally, through the memories of gay men...

... of sabotage in the context of global struggles against debt under neoliberalism, this essay argues that Tapia's piece draws our attention to the politics of accounting and accountability in contemporary life while offering an alternative model based on solidarity. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 debt...

...Eleanor Paynter; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair Migritude literature, or the literature of postcolonial migration, is often autobiographical and thus productively read through the lens of life writing. How authors position the immigrant self as subject sheds light on narrative...

... technology capitalism general intellect labor theory of value Works Cited Ball James . 2013 . “Xbox Live among Game Services Targeted by US and UK Spy Agencies.” Guardian , December 9 , www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life...

... at Quincy College. Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, where he also chairs the department. His most recent book is Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (NYU P, 2009). In animal studies...