...Marcus Wicker © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Marcus Wicker Maybe the Saddest Thing I can’t remember how to ride a bus right. Just the other day, I forgot who I was and couldn’t budge to help a human in need because the pen in my pocket was poking my thigh...

... . Austin J. L. 1962 . How to Do Things with Words . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Berardi Franco . 2012 . The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance . London : Semiotext(e) . Bloch Julia . 2010 . “ Lyric Descent: A Soft Polemic .” P-Queue 7 : 33 – 40 . Brown...

...Ry Molloy Copyright © 2022 Ry Molloy 2022 [email protected] Ry Molloy The Next Best Thing Rory found her a few days before the New Year at a sex shop in downtown Springfield. She hung behind the counter in a box the size of a television, and through its front panel of translucent...

...: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere . Ed. Kumar Amitava . New York : NYU P , 1997 . 298 - 312 . Michelle A. Massé “All Things Visible and Invisible”: Believing in Higher Education When Jeff Williams asked me to contribute to this reprise of the Kenyon Review’s “My...

...Whittney Jones © 2013 Whittney Jones 2013 Whittney Jones I Could Call You Worse Things It’s the implications when she says his name that he doesn’t like. Coal miner: covered in soot, bent at the joints, toothless, hillbilly. Never gonna amount to a single...

..., is that each of these newer philosophies exhibits a very strong humanism and a rather traditional ontology in that they claim to hear things “speak,” recording things’ voices, registering their presence, and heeding their indifference. Indeed, this ontology is so traditional as to be just another instance...

...Nicholas Lepre © 2015 Nicholas Lepre 2015 Nicholas Lepre Things We Hate It’s my sixth week of sleeping on Jarret’s loveseat in Brighton where we mostly watch things we hate and try not to kill each other. Jarret’s roommates want me out of the apartment. They glare at me as I pre...

...Cady Vishniac © 2016 Cady Vishniac 2016 Cady Vishniac Things He Sends Our Daughter I wore his dog tags throughout our doomed marriage, the ones on which Mormon had been misspelled Morman, which is funny because at six-foot-five, he is more man than most. The point is, he sends...

... : Harvard UP , 1984 . Wolch Jennifer . “ Zoöpolis .” Animal Geographies: Place, Politics, And Identity In the Nature-culture Borderlands . Ed. Wolch Jennifer R. Emel Jody . London : Verso , 1998 . © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Mark B. Feldman Where the Wild Things...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Jane Bennett discusses her highly influential notion of vibrant matter, which is her term for the idea that the locus of agency is always a human/nonhuman assemblage. In other words, there is an impetus to action in humans and animals, but the impetuses of “things...

... that to uncover the richness of the material world, including how it affects us and its implications for our lives, we need to know what it is made of; in other words, what actually makes up the objects and things that we need and use? Documentation science complements and supports Lehmann's call for material...

... that are always already ridden by strife; so never the consensual, but also never only conflictual. After discussing the place of political theory and feminism within the discipline of political science, Honig briefly discusses her new book project on public things. Her previous monographs include Political...

... informed the settlement of America in order to emphasize the role of fantasy and fiction in materializing these illogical things that have to do with our borders and our deportations. Her previous monographs include Reproducing the State (1999) and States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals (2009...

...Jennifer Cotter New materialism claims to offer a postanthropocentric advance over historical materialism by displacing human labor with the “vital agency” of all matter: from humans to objects and machines. By equating people with the objects they produce and positing the autopoiesis of things...

..., and how their work influenced, often in polemical response, biblical scholarship on early Christianity. In particular, this tradition of Christian communism has taken two forms, one concerned with communal living and “having all things in common” and the other with the revolutionary origins...

... examples from Bertolt Brecht’s theory, Friedrich Hölderlin’s verse, and Franco Fortini’s criticism. From Arthur Rimbaud on poetry is freedom as possibility of things being otherwise, a swerve from and against the dominant lore. Works Cited Auerbach Erich . 1969 . “ Philology and Weltliteratur...

... accomplishes two things. First, it underscores the problematic lack of attention to energy in existing discussions of the common, as in autonomist political philosophy. Second, adding energy to our thinking about the common produces new insights into the political and environmental commitments of existing...

...Margret Grebowicz This article takes its cue from Timothy Morton’s invitation to think all things in terms of radioactivity. Instead of focusing on objects, however, the author explores radiation in the imagination of animal desire in the nuclear dystopia. Her working hypothesis...

... to Ruysch’s floral bouquets and referencing the (fetal) anatomical dioramas created by her father, Frederik Ruysch. The poet aims to mobilize the creative mode of linguistic inquiry, poetry, to build a new vocabulary for attending to and grieving both living and nonliving things without reinforcing modern...

...Julia Koets © 2014 Julia Koets 2014 Julia Koets Preservation The only things remaining were things we kept in jars. The house smelled like library novels & coming home to a person. We hardly slept and didn’t seem to need it. We were adept at disorder. Stacked...