...Olivia Valdes © 2011 Olivia Valdes 2011 Olivia Valdes Treatise on Euphemism, Reconsidered In fourth grade the heck vs. earth debate means something. Heck, this otherworldly wildcard, spiraling out of the mouth and into the bread basket of the Evangelist...

... of “badness.” In eleven essays contributed by a bold group of young modernist scholars, the collection resists charges of modernism’s (bad) elitism, and reconsiders the complexity and subtlety of its “virtuous,” often political, transgressions. By holding these two versions...

...Phillip E. Wegner © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Works Cited Jameson Fredric . 1976 . “Introduction/Prospectus: To Reconsider the Relationship of Marxism to Utopian...

...: something waiting to fill our heads with ash, to make us reconsider what heat is. We used to dig in the yard: at first with our hands and then with small spades and shovels. We would cut through the frozen ground, dirt under our fingernails, our pants damp from the melted snow. We would dig until we...

..., Dystopia (2000) and coeditor of Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch, with Jamie Owen Daniel (1997); Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination (2004) and Utopia-Method-Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming (2007), both with Raffaella Baccolini; and Exploring the Utopian...

... . Bloom Allan . The Closing of the American Mind . New York : Penguin , 1988 . Bousquet Marc . “The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible.” Social Text 70 ( Spring 2002 ): 81 - 104 . Boyer Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered...

...) and the influential edited collections, The American Renaissance Reconsidered (with Walter Benn Michaels; Johns Hopkins UP, 1985), Cultures of United States Imperialism (with Amy Kaplan; Duke UP, 1993), National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives (Duke UP, 1994), and The Futures of American...

..., and conceptual frameworks. They invite us to reconsider the whole of human culture, perhaps even to begin anew. In a sense, anthrozoology and animal studies are like philosophy, which, as Aristotle wrote, starts with a sense of wonder. To the extent that we try to understand...

...' accommodate the totalitarian critique of Marx or ignore or deny it as well as the independence of disciplinary knowledge and of modern social movements" (21). In other words, one might say that traditional Marxists are willing to adjust some of their minor points, but not to reconsider their overall...

... Taxonomy.” Utopian Studies 4 , no. 2 : 1 – 17 . Hallward Peter . 2003 . Badiou: A Subject to Truth . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Jameson Fredric . 1976 . “Introduction/Prospectus: To Reconsider the Relationship of Marxism to Utopian Thought.” minnesota...

... into the nineteenth century has been called by Clifford Siskin an era of a “great forgetting” of women writers—a concept that Betty A. Schellenberg and others are working to reconsider and refine. We are in the process of documenting how eighteenth-century British...

... of Possible Worlds as a Key to Utopian Studies.” In Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch , edited by Daniel Jamie Owen Moylan Tom , 122 – 37 . London : Verso . Williams Raymond . 1977 . “Structures of Feeling.” In Marxism and Literature , 128 – 36 . Oxford : Oxford University...

... agency at the same time as it renders any human act inconsequential. My point in raising this tension is not to pick on Crutzen but rather to suggest that the Anthropocene calls on us to reconsider our understanding of dates and events altogether. Watt’s invention of the steam engine makes...

... us to think about the place of nature and agriculture in the suburbs, Animal Estates prompts us to consider where animals belong in the contemporary metropolis. Haeg’s work can help us reconsider not only where we find animals in vast cities, but also how urban space might...

...) within the phenomeno- logical object. In Aesthetic Theory, he seems to have reconsidered the implications of this dispute, of Benjamin’s insistence on an aura unmarked by history, aura as a condition of being inside the outside. It is, Adorno argues, our experience of a fully “objectified world...

... it in its own absolute interiority (Corpus 66-74). If that is the dissolving outcome of incarnation, concludes Nancy, then the path toward reconsidering the effective life of bodies, of each body and all bodies, passes through the definitive abandonment of the vocabulary...

... barometer after breakfast, could decide to remove his capital from the farming business between 10 and 11 in the morning and reconsider whether he should return to it later in the week. . . . [I]nvest- ment becomes reasonably “safe” for the individual investor over short...

...: North Point, 1987. Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Penguin, 1988. Bousquet, Marc. “The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible.” Social Text 70 (Spring 2002): 81-104. Boyer, Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities...

... time for much to happen” (153): “It is as though a farmer, having tapped his barometer after breakfast, could decide to remove his capital from the farming business between 10 and 11 in the morning and reconsider whether he should return to it later in the week ” (151).13 Keynes intends his...

... for collective organization. Nickels begins by reconsidering the politics of American and British modernism and what he calls modernism’s “highly ambivalent attitudes toward indi- viduality, mass politics, and creative production” (2012, 3). In particu- lar, he discerns a modernist emphasis...