... famous categorical inventions: the political unconscious, transcoding, and cognitive mapping. Discussing the global situation today, he suggests that because of its location on the outside, a Third World power such as Brazil enjoys an epistemological advantage over the United States, which rarely thinks...

... immigrant students, and her recent book on Proust. She reads Proust politically, situating him historically in relation to Freud and Dreyfus, and then takes him on a journey through Palestine by way of Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett as well as Middle Eastern writers like Elias Khoury or filmmakers like...

... Anker, which situate the anglophone novel in dialectic with emergent geopolitical forms: the world order of nation-states, postliberal governmentality, and human rights law. Finally, the essay calls for criticism that takes the genre’s formal ability to fashion worlds as a point of departure...

...Maura Nolan This essay brings together two medieval explorations of sensation— one by St. Thomas Aquinas and one by Geoffrey Chaucer—and situates them within the twentieth-century account of aesthetics offered by Theodor Adorno. This juxtaposition reveals how past and present structures of thought...

...-granting universities. This situation amounts to an ethical crisis, not just a labor one. The myth that “competition” is an appropriate mainstay for hiring is a toxic one for the humanities, as the process frequently fails: qualified candidates are unsuccessful not as a result of their own shortcomings...

... trajectories. It examines the tension between the universalizing aspiration of the common as a political project and the particular social situations of the commons. It emphasizes the commons as praxis, that is, as a practice that takes place in the world without being reducible to place. In doing so, it also...

... terms that are at once economic, sociological, political, and existential, and if precarity then emerges through the complex and conflictual interactions among economic sta- tus, forms of social belonging, political situation, and existential well- being, then the word precarity itself derives...

... in a situation but is not of that situation,” as Peter Hallward further notes; and hence the event is the “void of the situation, that aspect of the situation that has abso- lutely no interest in preserving the status quo as such” (2003, xxv, 114). In short, the event is the very possibility of a radical...

... . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . ———. 1983 . “Science versus Ideology.” Humanities in Society 6 : 283 – 302 . ———. 1989 . “Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan.” In Situations of Theory , 75 – 115 . Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971–1986 . Minneapolis : University...

... to sit on, and administrative work, including situations in which graduate students are responsible for managing and supervising their peers’ labor. They usually include the chance to learn professional skills or to gain experience outside of composition teaching, but they can also...

... Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation . London : Watts and Co. , 1932 . Zizek Slavoj . “Against Human Rights.” New Left Review 34 ( July-Aug. 2005 ): 115 - 31 . Lisa Fluet I’m Rubber, You’re Glue (on Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret...

... [or she] can only obtain through an enormous effort and with spasmodic interruptions” (Marx 1975, 324). The situation of precarity is one that has characterized the capitalist history, except for rare exceptions, and those exceptions— notably, the postwar welfare states—are steadily being returned...

... rhetorical situations is, of course, one of the oldest ideas Hollrah & Farmer 201 about argumentation that the West has produced. In fact, Graff and Birkenstein mention the classical tradition for partial justification of their templates...

... the periph- ery. The brief answer is that Christian communism functions as a one- sided literary response to a determinate socioeconomic situation, and since it was one-sided, it failed to capture the mainstream imagina- tion. The long answer will demand the remainder of this article. However...

... point for me was that her way of talking about marginality was more applicable to women’s situations than a theory that talks about women in an essentialist way. Williams It does seem an academic habit to look for a point to criticize. Moi Well, you can’t control...

... emerged out of our contemporary economic, political, and institu­ tional academic situation. By doing so below, I politicize and extend Jennifer Wicke’s prescient (2001) suggestion that “[a]s revivers of its brand [modernism], a brand we cannot seem to do without, we re- brand ourselves as critics...

..., eighties, and nine- ties. Though largely visual, Vicuña’s earlier art foregrounds the way in which etymology maps her critical and philosophical engagement with twentieth-century and pre-Columbian aesthetics. Vicuña simu- lates the motion of history in the West by using poetry to situate ety- mology...

... : Johns Hopkins University Press . Grosz Elizabeth . 2005 . Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Haraway Donna . 1988 . “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies 14...

... obscured by language in humans. Two passages read in tandem help illustrate this function. The first appears in the “Motives” chapter of Permanence and Change, in the section entitled “Motives Are Shorthand Terms for Situations”: 174 the minnesota review If our words for motive...

... persecution and ecological tyranny in their coun- try of origin. Situated beyond representation by the law, they are con- fined to a precarious no-man s-land as symbolic orphans who are 92 the minnesota review denied civil rights and genealogies of origin (56). In fact, Sinha s text maps a three-dimensional...