...Veronica Kuhn Copyright © 2019 Veronica Kuhn 2019 Veronica Kuhn Self-Portrait as Lollipops That Grow into Plants after You re Done Eating Them Welcome to the leftover forest of me. At your feet, you ll see the aster in flower, once my first stick of gum. That cypress to the north came from...

...Dean Rader © 2013 Dean Rader 2013 Dean Rader The Other Self Goes Rogue Distance and inward, light and the reversal of light, retread tread and footfall. So much and so long, the little voice within the little voice says.   We all hide somewhere, why not in ourselves...

...Matthew Yeager © 2014 Matthew Yeager 2014 Matthew Yeager From The Gut Sonnets Take 2: Should I Kill and Eat Chi-Ko or Not, or Alone in Rage the Self Is Split, Lost No more! I’m sick of living! (ripped like this), torn Like a note that needs both halves for sense...

...Jason Bredle © 2014 Jason Bredle 2014 Jason Bredle Self-Hypnosis Usually when people don’t know they’re dead, it means one of two things. Count backward from ten. You’re getting sleepy. When we lose faith, we don’t believe in nothing, we believe...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Jeffrey J. Williams Critical Self-Fashioning: An Interview with Stephen J. Greenblatt In 1981 Stephen J. Greenblatt stamped contemporary criticism with the term “the new historicism.” Against both the old formalism of the New...

...Adam Shechter © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Adam Shechter On Actively Halting Nostalgia—A Self-Referential Critical Essay on the Heroics of Family Crisis as the Only True Subject of the Chassidic Tale Jews who...

... China. The GDP fetish and economic developmentalism have been the backbone of the pragmatic policies of the Chinese Communist Party since reform, but three decades of economic achievement have not bolstered the leadership’s political self-confidence, let alone their vision and courage for the inevitable...

...Mladen Lazić Some of the basic ideas from Darko Suvin’s book Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia are analyzed in the essay. Suvin’s hypothesis that Yugoslav self-management represents a unique historical experience of the possibility to set the foundations...

... activist women similarly on the lam include Marin Douglas in Joan Didion’s A Book of Common Prayer (1977). Alice Mellings in Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist (1977), Jenny Shimada in Susan Choi’s American Woman (2003), Anna Xenos (nom de guerre Dial) in Peter Carey’s His Illegal Self (2008), Reno...

...Crystal Bartolovich; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock Different as they are, Fredric Jameson’s “universal army” and Bruno Latour’s “Theater of Negotiations” both implicitly address the failure of a sufficiently large self-organized “common force” (à la Leslie Marmon Silko) to arise and repair...

...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...

...Walt Hunter The lyric poem has often been understood as incompatible with other discourses, set apart by its compression, privacy, and identification with the individual self. Recently, the New Lyric Studies has rejected both the essentialism and the exceptionalism of the lyric as a genre or mode...

... in Vicuña’s poetic lyric unlocks ways of building community from the various acts of expressing rights, self, and being. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014 Works Cited Bauman Zygmunt . 1998 . Globalization: The Human Consequences . New York : Columbia University Press . Beck Ulrich . 1998...

...Graham Owen Though the flooding of New Orleans was the result of shoddy construction of the city’s levees, the city’s recovery was to be not through enlightened government initiative but by frontier self-reliance, “personal responsibility.” Returning inhabitants, like pioneers, were to homestead...

... Eames and Charles Eames’s animation Powers of Ten , drawing on examples from biology, ecology, and engineering. Scale variance is the opposite of fractal self-similarity and the smooth zoom effect apparent in Powers of Ten . Scale critique shows that the “human species” is not the subject...

... digital realism operates in the work of multimedia artist Steve Roggenbuck (b. 1987), which draws out and capitalizes on the contradictions of self-fashioning through affective modes of sincerity and failure, in order to explore the limits of popular accessibility that social media platforms and poetics...

... of human beings. And, more to the point, he suggests the historical reasons for this self-defeating gesture. With his interlocutor, Francescomaria Tedesco, he tries to explain why there is so little intellectual debate over these issues — and why debate itself has been targeted. How, he asks, has radical...

... into portable dualisms and reified fixed principles, and the substitution of homological equivalences between aesthetics and politics in the place of mediating, dialectical, and/or constellating thought. While the NMS's self-branding impulse has generated popular, ready-to-apply models for new scholars...

... Walter Benn . “The Interpreter's Self: Peirce on the Cartesian ‘Subject.’” The Georgia Review 31 ( Summer 1977 ): 383 - 402 . Peirce Charles . “How to Make Our Ideas Clear.” 1878 . The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings: Volume One (1867-1893) . Ed. Houser...

... the automatic self. How to stop the back-ups. Arroyo I plan. Arroyo I plan to have no plans. Arroyo at the end of time. Can I relive it in a sentence. When the trees exude and unfold in exhalation. Is surviving privilege. Arroyo at the end of time. Arroyo on a new moon. Is there such a thing as pure darkness...