...Paul Youngquist © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Paul Youngquist Thinking Outside the Quad The notion came to me while I was on the phone with customer service for Citibank. I was walking across the empty quad trying to keep my cell squinched between jowl and shoulder, fiddling...

...Phillip E. Wegner I reflect upon the value of Jacques Lacan's 1969–70 Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis , for thinking about the challenges we face as scholars and teachers working in the contemporary university. As with Lacan's title for this seminar, my title has a range of meanings...

...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...

... hypothesis of this article is that, in its insistence on the primacy of the “radically other,” contemporary posthumanist political thought forecloses an important route to one of its own central goals: building paradigms for thinking about shared, multispecies worldings. The authors argue that the basis...

... apertures through which the American body politic is projected, namely, speech acts. The stakes in examining speech acts, for which I turn to poetry and the work of Solmaz Sharif and Rob Halpern, involves thinking about the commons. For one, because liberal democratic identity revolves around a deliberative...

... demonstrate a breadth and depth of thinking, experience, and understanding beyond modern commentators. Copyright © 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 animal welfare cruelty unnecessary suffering fashion humane methods unnatural conditions Works Cited Bradshaw John . 2017 . The Animals among...

... 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...

...Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article examines the poetry of Danez Smith as a practice of commoning. It introduces the concept of the uncommons as a way of thinking about how African American literature, culture, and political practice develop egalitarian forms...

...Jesse Oak Taylor This article traces the implications of thinking about the Anthropocene from the perspective of the archives that make it visible, placing ice-core data and scientific research on historical climate alongside ideas of the archive in historiography and the humanities. Drawing...

... and expression, far from being straightforwardly aligned in a sequence or developmental arc, are asynchronously intertwined. All three writers engage with the relationship between sensation and historical change; all three, in different ways, think about the problem of embodiment and its relation to generalities...

... escape. This is not to reinforce our real binding to labor but a way to suggest new forms of mapping and thinking this binding as contradictory and as capable of being exploded from within. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 life labor value Karl Marx Jacques Derrida Works Cited Althusser...

... to disturbing Western attitudes toward Muslims. While he recognized the contributions of Orientalist scholars, such as their knowledge of languages and translations of key texts, he and his collaborators in England found their way of thinking unsophisticated, biased, sweepingly broad, and often just plain wrong...

... 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...

..., it cannot afford to think only in terms of print culture, for to do so would be to sidestep its primary operational field and the means by which it maintains its continuing paradigmatic function. © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...

...; don’t be afraid to say “we.” I am won- dering about the current status of these orthodoxies; I recognize myself in a few of them. The minnesota review is a journal of the aca- demic Left, and so I think these are important questions, and they’re questions that are worth putting out there. You...

... very bold claims based on a careful examination of big social issues. This sets you apart from a certain phase of political feminism —​the Michel Foucault legacy, where one looks at discursive iteration or social practices in a specific cultural sphere. You instead think on a much larger scale...

... happening across the country where more and more programs are splitting out and becoming self-standing composition or undergraduate writing programs, drawing TAs from all over the curriculum with no departmental status. There are a lot of reasons why I think that’s...

... are being published and there seems to be a lot more pressure on sales. I know you've thought about it and written about it; maybe you could bring us up to date on what you think about the state of scholarly publishing? Wissoker I think even people who've been in publishing longer than I have...

..., is defending liberal education. Certainly in What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts?, you mount a well-thought, even- toned, and good-spirited defense of liberal education. Bérubé Thanks for the kind words. I actually think ofWhat’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? as continuous...

... portrayed an injustice but, of course, homelessness is worse now than when that film was made. With Cathy Come Home, we were adopted by people with whom we really didn’t feel we had much in common. I think that was influential in pushing our little group to the left; we were social democrats when we...