...Stanimir Panayotov Stanimir Panayotov Speculum of the Pruning-Scissors (on Katerina Kolozova and Eileen A. Joy, eds., After the “Speculative Turn”: Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism) After ten years of biting the dust of speculative realism (hereafter SR), scholars are now...

... life. The emergence of social media poetics — and, specifically, what I term digital realism — demonstrates the use of the confessional mode in social media. Digital realism gives name to a process of literary production that obscures the lines between life and writing. In this essay, I explore how...

...Andrew Cole This essay is a critique of actor-network theory (ANT), vitalism, and object-oriented ontology (OOO, or “speculative realism”), as advanced by Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, and Graham Harman and his colleagues. It focuses on the contradiction within these newer philosophies. Each holds...

... of the Anthropocene to the wider discourse of posthumanism and also touches upon the importance of speculative realism as well as genres like the science-fiction novel to help us conceptualize our new condition. A brief summary of each of the ten essays in the focus section follows. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014...

...Bruce Holsinger This essay investigates the compelling affinities between the premodern mythographic tradition and the various schools of thought grouped under the rubrics of speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and vitalism. Like mythography proper, much of this work entails...

... being hallucination and the other being paranoia. Based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s argumentation, this essay studies four sorts of paranoiac characters in Mo Yan’s novels: innocent fools, tricksters, rogues, and cranks. It is through these masked fools that Mo Yan is able to apply “hallucinatory realism...

...D. Vance Smith This article examines the various limits of knowledge in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale as a critique of finitude in object-oriented philosophy and speculative realism. The phrase “death shall be dead” is the form of the receding limits that emerge when finitude is revoked, the lack...

... on realism, allegory, and myth. He describes his own cultural analysis as an attempt to uncover the contradictory situations that produced solutions in the form of culture, literature, art, philosophy, technology, politics, or history. He attributes the famous difficulty of his sentences to their trying...

... . Harman Graham . 2018 . Speculative Realism: An Introduction . Boston : Polity Press . Lauck Jon K. Whitney Gleaves Hogan Joseph , eds. 2018 . Finding a New Mid-western History . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Marrs Cody Hager Christopher , eds. 2019...

... and distribution. Angerer  85 This critique radically calls into question the primacy of human beings over nonhuman agencies and negotiates questions relating to the post- human, agential realism, intra-action, entangled ontology —​in other words, processes...

... in which nothing, it seems, exists outside the terms of commodity exchange? These studies trace this anxiety through the mid-century decades in which the dream of the Old Left met the fantasy of the new class. Schryer charts what he calls the “realism of the cultural appara- tus” in postwar...

... representation or imitation of an external, ref- erential world mimesis as realism. Translated in this simple way, your approach to literature has been consistently antimimetic through- out your career. Why did you find it important for critics and theorists to be suspicious of mimetic readings that treat...

... that certain contemporary works, such as Mohsin Hamid’s Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), are best understood as “world-system literature” (Medovoi 2011). This idea finds echo in the “peripheral realisms” delineated by Jed Esty and Col- leen Lye in a recent special issue of MLQ, which mediates...

...), exemplifies, in part, “ordinary language criticism” and proposes a major revision of the genealogy of modernism. It recovers the idealist tradition in literature that dominated through the nineteenth century, argues that idealism rather than realism was the formative antecedent to modernism, and casts...

... to forms such as the novel of ideas and to interests in beauty, aesthetics, and realism that had been, so the story goes, killed by post-structuralism and avant-garde mod- ernism. These works directly consider, then, the future both of the novel and of the study of literature itself. In doing so...

... studies attitudes towards science doesn’t seem to me to be helpfully characterized in terms of a disagreement about the philosophical propositions like realism or anything like that. You can find people indisputably within the standard mainstream analytic philosophy of science...

... Biddick, Amy Hollywood), speculative realism or object-oriented ontology (Andrew Cole, Bruce Holsinger, D. Vance Smith), and aesthetic theory (Maura Nolan), and these schools of thought are examined in light of medieval mysticism, theology, and Chaucer. 82 the minnesota review Let...

... . 1995 . The Society of the Spectacle . Translated by Nicholson-Smith Donald . New York : Zone . Derrida Jacques . 1994 . Counterfeit Money. Translated by Peggy Kamuf. Vol. 1 of Given Time . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Fisher Mark . 2009 . Capitalist Realism...

....” By speak- ing directly to the world, political or committed art ends up accom- modating to it. This was Adorno’s fear and his charge against realism. To be political in today’s world requires a new form of art, a highly mediated artifact (Adorno 1980a, 194). As he argues about Arnold Schoenberg’s...

.... The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability. New York: Pantheon, 2006. Lang, Amy Schrager, and Cecelia Tichi, eds. What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2006. Lebovics, Herman. Imperialism...