...Bert Cardullo This interview with Ken Loach took place in July 2009 at his home in Bath, England. Unquestionably one of Britain's most important filmmakers, Loach is best known for his gritty and compassionate portrayals of working-class life. Early in his career, a series of socially conscious...

...Lucia Bryant © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 the minnesota review Lucia Bryant The Social Worker I invite her to make an appointment; I think I can help. You won't catch me in an office, she promises. So we settle on coffee...

...Dean Rader © 2013 Dean Rader 2013 Dean Rader Social Semiotics Two fingers, tip touching Means spark. An arm high Overhead says me. These Lines & curves, in fact These very signs right Here say stop, go, connect. O t-cross and i-dot...

...Daniel Markowicz © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Daniel Markowicz Whither Socialism (on John McGowan’s American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time [Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2007] and Paul Smith’s Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist...

...Prathna Lor Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter serve millions of people who populate digital space with autobiographical avatars and simulacra. Digital selves are curated, edited, and maintained in a perpetual process of digitizing life experience in order to produce an imagined...

... of life in the face of white supremacism. It considers the ways in which the violences of white supremacism uncommon black life—that is, bar blackness from belonging—as well as the ways in which poetry and politics become avenues through which black life invents alternative socialities. From...

...” tweet and Aram Saroyan’s equally notorious “lighght,” this article explores the inscriptive and interpretive contexts and the social and political consequences of these texts. Exploring the poetics of political tweets and the politics of concrete poetry, the article establishes a framework...

... for liberation from class domination and build a human community based on social equality and individual freedom is tested against historiographic and sociological research data. Suvin’s own idea about the radical break between the first phase of the development of self-management (1950–70) as a possible...

...Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article introduces the dossier “Is There a Place for the Commons?” by briefly explaining the concepts of the common (no s ) and the commons (with an s ) in terms of their philosophical, political, social, and historical...

...Robert Faivre Fredric Jameson's reading of Wal-Mart as a figure of a postcapitalism-to-come is exemplary of the market logic that value is produced outside production in distribution and consumption. Through his dialectics of ambivalence, Jameson produces an analysis that empties the social...

... critique, the film executes its social crisis through the logic of vampiric speciology, immunizing the present against the threat of radical transformation and restoring a “natural” social order. However, the biopolitical writings of Roberto Esposito offer us a way to discern the ineradicable utopian...

... to the fundamental questions and dilemmas that China faces today: the absence of social consensus and coherent social values that provide not only cohesiveness to an increasingly diverse and fragmented society in rapid transformation but also clues to the world community as to the future orientations of a rising...

...Whitney Stark In this semimanifesto, I approach how understandings of quantum physics and cyborgian bodies can (or always already do) ally with feminist anti-oppression practices long in use. The idea of the body (whether biological, social, or of work) is not stagnant, and new materialist...

... while matter is figured as passive and immutable?” With this shift toward the material, bodies began to be seen in a different light and their materiality understood as something that follows its own laws and movements, which cannot be understood exclusively in terms of social-cultural codes. Instead...

... this speculative fiction, as it points toward a new materialist sens/ability and new forms of social science. Elizabeth de Freitas Nonhuman Findings from the Laboratory of Speculative Sociology The Laboratory of Speculative Sociology (LSS) The laboratory was designed and built in 2013, within...

..., specifically asking about their relationships with the AI systems with which they work. Their answers often reflected a broader spectrum of co-creation, expanding the social conversation and complicating issues of agency and nonagency, technology and power, for the sake of human and nonhuman futures alike...

... capitalogenic ecological and social depredations today. Reading Jameson and Latour together offers a way toward affirmative transformation by exposing the need (“horizontal” ideals notwithstanding) for force put into critical tension with common effort to spur the ecosocial planetary repair humans— especially...

...Peter Hitchcock; Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock These theses are meant not as the final word on the concept or praxis of the commons but as words inspiring readers to imagine alternatives to the status quo. They cover topics including social reproduction, the knowledge...

... of “participatory art” is frequently generated out of an optimism for effective political and artistic practice within the conditions of post-Fordist sociality. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 performance art relational aesthetics medium specificity post-Fordism Rosalind Krauss Works Cited Berlant...

... on secularism. Scott was trained as a social historian of France, and her first book was The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City . With Louise Tilly she authored Women, Work, and Family . As founding director of Brown University's Pembroke Center...