... apertures through which the American body politic is projected, namely, speech acts. The stakes in examining speech acts, for which I turn to poetry and the work of Solmaz Sharif and Rob Halpern, involves thinking about the commons. For one, because liberal democratic identity revolves around a deliberative...

... at the kitchen table, then flicks on the living room light. Still, he doesn t notice me. My hands swamp inside nitrile gloves. I have my .38 Taurus, the revolver I inherited from my father. The bags have striped Vincent s forearm red. Why haven t I already squeezed the trigger? His shoes come off followed...

....” One of the ways in which the editors revolve around the issue is by placing quotation marks around “speculative realism” in the title. This skepticism gives rise to “new forms of realism,” offering a double differentiation away from SR. First, there was never SR feminism, and second, SR does...

... shrugged. “I’ve seen how the kids at school act. I don’t want to be that way. They seem so interested in lip gloss. I mean, the world does not revolve around lip gloss.” “What does it revolve around, then?” “The sun, of course.” “Wise guy,” Carolyn said...

... recently edited, with Luca Somigli, a special issue on Italian Futurism for the journal Annali d’Italianistica. Giuseppina Mecchia is the Director of Cultural Studies and Associate Professor of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh.  Her research revolves...

... and graffitied lots of the city to some suburb, bound for nowhere in particular except, perhaps, the unremarkable landmarks of strangers’ childhoods: plastic pools strewn with leaves, merry-go-rounds revolving slowly, creakily, covered with rust that flaked away when one removed one's hands. She listened...

... Review, Revolver, Swink, and Versal. Heather Quinn is a poet living in San Francisco. She has been pub- lished in the Rockhurst Review and Floating Holiday Magazine and will be published in the soon-to-be-released 2016 edition of the West Marin Review. She cofounded a peer-led poetry workshop...

... received the Holberg Prize in 2008 and the MLA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. 152 the minnesota review Mohammed Abdullah Hussein Muharram is an assistant professor of English literature at Dhamar University, Republic of Yemen. His research revolves around “writing back...

... to show that Latin American cultural studies continues to be a field of work McClennen 129 driven by ongoing polemics that revolve around the urge to identify the ways that such scholarship can be a part of meaningful political intellectual activity...

... management innovation in and out of the academy revolves around creating workplace conditions that they hope will induce workers to freely discount their wage. In the administration of higher education, this means a delicate balancing act, in which management continuously tries to seize...

... of connection, it becomes much more difficult to determine their relation to one another (4). The collection is divided into three sections, each of which revolves around a key question concerning how postcolonial studies might approach globalization. The first...

... that revolves more around difference in a constant shapeshifting rather than betterment and profitability. Difference, the articles show in different ways, allows the new to be thought as folded in creativity but now as an openness to what happens: whatever comes along and is transforming in the process...

.... Chhaya had hoped to find a woman so wealthy Igra wouldn’t have to leave his own village, Ghaner, to find lucrative work in Jele­para where most conversations during dinner or over chai revolved around death and tigers. Igra went against their wishes, married Sarla, left his parents’ house, left...

... have to overshoot, conversationally, in order to revolve back and thereby plot the true orbit of your thinking. Auden was right to suspect Volume XIII of Kierkegaard’s collected works, The Corsair Affair, would be a key piece of the puzzle of his...

... (the col- lapse of the welfare state in the wake of postwar Keynesian state eco- nomic planning, capitalist risk management, and so on) through which contemporary forms of precarity are largely understood. Lastly, the etymology of precarity revolves repeatedly around forms of request, entreaty...

.... The bus station was a dull yellow under the streetlights and looked like an aluminum box that somebody had sprayed with graffiti over and over. We stepped off the bus and walked through the revolving doors. 34 the minnesota review Once inside, the metal gates came down crashing over the travel...

... of the GDC national board, traveled to Gallup to help gather evidence for the three defense attorneys and to help the miners 158 the minnesota review and their families organize fundraising and consciousness-raising campaigns. In early May, three hooded men, armed with revolvers...

..., nonhuman, mineral, animal, plant, manufactured object, machine, and so on. “At its broadest,” Milla Tiainen and Jussi Parikka (2010) state, “new materialism can be said to concern a series of questions and potentialities that revolve round the idea of active, agential and morphogenetic; self...

... positions seem either to have been immediately incorporated by corporate actors and thoroughly stripped of their concrete political content or to revolve around the “eternal problems” of the first culture wars (Bourdieu 1989 : 53), that is, philosophical and political aporias whose sole function...

... to learn about strategy and tactics from veterans of the Flint sit-down strike and the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Some of the stereotypes were of course true. The internal culture of the district, when not lapsed into Popular Front nostalgia, revolved around issues of mass...