...Tom Sokolowski [email protected] © 2023 Tom Sokolowski 2023 Tom Sokolowski Then There s Something I m sitting on a stool with my back to the pantry in the kitchen of Paige s killer. The lights are off, though an intrusive streetlight yellows the dirty plates lopsidedly stacked...

... to materialize information, transforming it from something seemingly intangible into something tangible. Indeed, one of the main effects of documentation is information's materialization. This article contributes to new materialism by introducing a documentary approach to analyzing and understanding...

... boundary, thus opening the impersonal realm of our shared zoetic life and its multispecies potential. Throughout, the authors play at something like an interchangeability of Kraus and Weil, as a performative response to both Weil’s call for the impersonal and Kraus’s complicated relationship to autofiction...

...D. N. Rodowick This article argues in favor of misreading as a creative act. There is something involuntary in every creative act, and this involuntariness is itself a force of creation that arrives at the threshold of every act of repetition in and through time. Creativity is always shaped...

... discussions of the commons and protest more generally. Drawing on short readings of Sarah Schulman’s People in Trouble and David Feinberg’s Queer and Loathing , this article invokes the importance of not forgetting the power of protest during ACT-UP to envision the world as something other than...

... 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...

... 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...

... prisoners like you, taxi driver, into ghosts. Our techniques are as simple as water and cloth, the locations we bruise. No one else knows you are here. Give us something: tell us names. Tonight, cry something other than Allah. Tell us names tonight. Cry something. Other than Allah...

... the front hall, my wife bellowed something about meatballs in the freezer. I hollered back thanks. The door slammed. Avery didn t move. Mister Fingers is a children s channel on a video hosting website. All of the videos feature syrupy, cheerful music and a pair of human hands unwrapping toys. Each episode...

... have skipped town, where tonight it’s sooooo fun You know I’d normally throw pants on and join you, but I’m halfway through Something’s Gotta Give and tonight I’m in love with Diane Keaton, as I am every time I watch this movie, which I suppose I have to admit is my favorite, perhaps because...

... of the library budget is ending up being sucked out into Elsevier, which has been returning something like 20% profit as a corporation (they own quite a lot, including Publishers Weekly). It's not based on a "cost plus profit" model; it's more like, "How much money is available at these American...

..., that there is something called “composition,” and that has its own expertise, its own set of classes and professional domain and literature, was set. Once upon a time in the American university that distinction wasn’t so fixed; certainly the lower division and upper divisions were set, the training...

... and arguments about them. It was the sort of thing that most people would have done only in college, but I got a taste of it before I entered college. I hadn’t thought about criticism before; as a high school student criticism was something you read in order to get...

... optimistic, something sturdy and dependable. Cats, on the other hand, have always struck me as moody and unpredictable, like a neurotic girlfriend you realize is more work than she is worth. For a cat, though, Sidney seemed to have a lot of dog in her. She was a brown and gray calico...

... what the connection is: women and animals are interchangeable absent referents.” Then the book just wrote itself—after false starts and six different drafts. It took sixteen years and, in 1989, when I finished I thought, “I can write about something else now.” I don’t think the book...

...: something waiting to fill our heads with ash, to make us reconsider what heat is. We used to dig in the yard: at first with our hands and then with small spades and shovels. We would cut through the frozen ground, dirt under our fingernails, our pants damp from the melted snow. We would dig until we...

.... Students are excited by the idea that you could look at a text and it could mean something completely different from what you thought it meant. “Surface Reading” was never meant to be a polemic against symptomatic reading. But it was meant to be a polemic against the polemical aspects...

... and around the political, where the political refers to the fundamental antagonism around which society is constituted. About fundamental antagonism, I would say that under capitalism, fundamental antago- nism is that you have something called class struggle, which is an economic antagonism. But I’m...

... face. Kolluri  49 The first moment I can remember with Rasmus was in Daneborg. It was summer, and I stood on top of my dog box. He stood next to me, slowly stroking my ears with one hand. He was talking to me about something in the sky...