...Beth Gilstrap © 2013 Beth Gilstrap 2013 Beth Gilstrap Yard Show It ain’t garbage if you turn it into something. Something slow dipped and pulled apart. Put back together again upside down. Round side out. Glib. Free. A vulture made of wire hangers. Fabric ripped, draped...

...Jerry Williams © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 27 Jerry Williams The Tonight Show After every single game and most practices we sat in the family room with the television off. My father apostrophized...

...Vanita Reddy; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude . Patel’s migritude poetics resonates...

... to show that this often marginalized literary-philosophical concept takes center stage in the political, ethical, scientific, and technological transformations that cast a shadow on present and future generations. Nidesh Lawtoo The Critic and the Mime J. Hillis Miller in Dialogue with Nidesh Lawtoo...

...: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (1957). They use Kantorowicz’s periodization to bracket off the body as an immune medieval historical form from the twelfth century. Biddick tells a tale of three bodies (corpora) to show the entangled combustibility of the Christian institutional imaginary...

... Vicuña’s own explanations behind her ongoing sculpture work, the precarios . The paintings reveal an intersection of multiple philosophical and theoretical footholds; but more important, they show Vicuña the artist searching through concepts and practices to give form to the eruption of experiences...

...Wang Jinghui As the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan shows how a writer in a socialist country successfully internalizes censorship. Censorship in China is part of Mo Yan’s professional and psychic environment and generates two major results in his works, one...

... are inherently technological. It is not mere humans that have reached out and changed the climate but humans extended by planet-scale economies and industries. The computed climate models that show us the climate has changed are just another way we’ve come to rely on automated devices to understand what...

... in the country, and the community’s quick return and recovery after the hurricane thrust them into the local and national spotlight. The community’s vibrant urban farms have been a particular point of focus, but this article shows how the range of meanings emerging from the Vietnamese American New Orleans...

... 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...

...Kalliopi Nikolopoulou This essay is a critical analysis of Nietzsche's anti-Aristotelian reading of tragedy. My purpose is to show Aristotle's relevance for our age, which is strongly inflected by Nietzsche. I focus on the contemporary sidelining of catharsis in order to understand certain...

... are the largest and most profitable companies on the planet? It should be otherwise if the LTV were true. The rest of the article is devoted to showing how Marx modified the LTV to resolve the paradox and to account for the peculiar role that the oil industry plays in contemporary capitalism. © 2016 Virginia...

... in such formalizations that the heuristic force of what we call theory lies: these formalizations are what “force,” in Alain Badiou's sense, new knowledges, something I will show in what follows by both outlining some of Lacan's formalizations and offering a few of my own. Furthermore, in the second half of this essay...

... them in a more doubtful light, Brennan looks at various theoretical moments of the immediate past: for example, the “subaltern,” the “multitude,” and the post-human. He observes along the way that the humanities themselves, paradoxically, have become the institution devoted to showing the absurdity...

..., and working with imprisoned writers. What can we learn from free minds in extremely taxing, degrading, and depressing circumstances? What does creative work mean for embodied lives serving (more than) life sentences? The book works toward a way to restore and rebuild justice, and it shows us the power...

... such as video games develop the mind the way reading once did. Johnson simply replaces the relationship between' a book and a brain with more recent technological tools—the new "books" are primarily video games, television shows, and the Internet. Although twentieth-century educators argue...

... as a schedule of an ordinary day in an ordinary life, “A Day in Your Life” shows how every minute is made possible by government. We can wake to our favorite radio station because the government regulates the airwaves, we can turn on the lights without fear of fire because the government licensed...

...://www.amphilsoc.org/library/exhibits/treasures > . Riis Jacob . How the Other Half Lives . 1890 . New York : Dover , 1971 . The National Dog Show . Home page . < http://www.nationaldogshowbirmingham.org.uk/society.asp > . “ Turns of the Centuries Exhibit: Newcomers 1880-1920...

...CD Eskilson Copyright © 2021 CD Eskilson 2021 CD Eskilson Essay on Witchcraft Statues of Hecate show a triple-headed goddess. A being far too myriad for just one mouth. There s a longing for what s lost in shrines, engraved into a frieze. What s held inside a myth. My sibling knew defiance...

... they’re tacky, and bought a tube of cookie dough and timed the baking so the whole house smelled nice when the CBS man came. Pastor had called me after midnight the night before. “Remember, this is our chance to show America what good work we’re doing,” he said. “You three are our...