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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 132–143.
Published: 01 November 2015
...), plot (that hardly accretes), and agency (which is hardly efficacious) — this essay examines how contemporary accounts of economic and affective precarity theorize the subject's (compromised) relationship to choice. Turning attention to the institution of the zero-hour contract and to Michel Foucault's...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 107–118.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Elizabeth Adan; Benjamin Bateman This introduction to the special focus section, “Emergent Precarities and Lateral Aesthetics,” takes the recent work of Lauren Berlant and Judith Butler as its point of departure to map the parameters of lateral agency and precarity as a means of exploring what...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 180–188.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Philip Armstrong Taking its point of departure from the etymological relation between precarity and prayer as well as from Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on “prayer demythified,” the essay seeks to reconfigure problems of dependency, vulnerability, and abandonment in the discourse of precarity...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 119–131.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and the pleasure of proximate dependence. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 Emily Dickinson ballad meter Erfahrung Erlebnis precarity nonaccumulation Works Cited Attridge Derek . 1982 . The Rhythms of English Poetry . New York : Routledge . Benjamin Walter . 1968 . Illuminations...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 162–169.
Published: 01 November 2015
... act
of carbonizing them, Tapia’s piece glimpses a new aesthetics (or anti-
aesthetics) of precarity, or of the precariat, that redeploys strategies
such as sabotage to intervene in the material practices of accounting
and accountability that undergird forms of exploitation in contempo-
rary...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 104–123.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to emigrate as an extension of the attempts that he and other men Paynter 111 make to support their families rather than as a distinct idea about international border crossing. In these situations of precarity, the heads of households search for work in a range of environments: Some look for work at the port...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2009 (71-72): 101–122.
Published: 01 May 2009
...
of precarity formerly associated not even with working-class but
proletarian existence. Education got you out of the vicissitudes and
precariousness of proletarian life. Now education is pervasively
complicit in the production of precarity throughout the working...
Journal Article
the minnesota review (2009) 2009 (71-72): 131–136.
Published: 01 May 2009
... anxieties and the
openings we are trying to create.
Let us look at the historical present, manifestly organized by the
rhetoric of crisis. We need to reinvent what it means to do engaged,
solidaristic work for the current crisis, the spreading precarities,
and the insecuritization...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2009 (71-72): 248–253.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to the dog
food factory. We’re the cash cows. For doctoral students confident
in an advisor’s protection and mentorship seeing them through to
greener pastures, the factory farm image may not fit their experience
of grad school. But rather than deny our precarity, we should
value...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 144–152.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of contemporary lyric subjectivity in which the lyric's “I” emerges from and is shaped by the collective immiseration of neoliberal globalization. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 lyric globalization ethics precarity Works Cited Abrams M. H. Harpham Geoffrey Galt . 2011 . A Glossary...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 170–179.
Published: 01 November 2015
... with
social structures such as precarity often results in vague reflection or,
worse, the reproduction of the very relations and structures that deter-
mine precarious existence in the first place.2 Among the most troubling
manners in which participatory work can take on the structure of neo-
liberal...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 153–161.
Published: 01 November 2015
... would like to thank Elizabeth Adan and Benjamin Bateman for their generous
editorial comments on an original draft of this essay. I would also like to thank my
fellow panelists and the audiences at the 2013 Public Poetics conference in Mon-
treal, Quebec, and the 2014 Emergent Precarities...
Journal Article
the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 139–148.
Published: 01 November 2016
... [or she] can only obtain
through an enormous effort and with spasmodic interruptions” (Marx
1975, 324). The situation of precarity is one that has characterized the
capitalist history, except for rare exceptions, and those exceptions—
notably, the postwar welfare states—are steadily being returned...
Journal Article
the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 94–106.
Published: 01 November 2022
... where people iteratively provide emotional, intellectual, and practical support, thereby creating strategic venues for building trust, changing habits, and questioning norms. The economic precarity of many independent artists and culture workers has long demanded the creation of new organizations...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (101): 123–150.
Published: 01 November 2023
... detailed and varied bouquets but also for how she depicts the precarity of such beauty. Interspersed between stems in full bloom are those that have wilted or decayed, or those that have been half-eaten by parasitic insects always lurking nearby, sitting on the tabletop or hanging under a leaf. Further...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (102): 124–144.
Published: 01 May 2024
...” (Melamed 2011 : 11), both produce and depend on a model of autonomous, independent consent—the inherent precarity of which, given asymmetrical relations of power, is made particularly apparent in struggles over the meanings of transgression , coercion , and force . The myriad prospects for “violation...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (103): 50–75.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., and posthumanist critiques. It is also responding to a growing sense of precarity and instability as capitalist-colonialist systems strain in the face of the crises they have produced. 11 Scholars working at the intersections of ecological studies and narrative theory, then, are renewing attention to the power...
