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...Rob Wilkie Video games have become a significant aspect of the technology industry, yet they have also become for many the image of an emerging contradiction said to reside at the heart of digital capitalism, namely that capitalism is no longer based upon the exploitation of workers' labor...

... argues that Ahmed’s substantial investigation focuses necessary attention upon the ways in which both the work ethic and, agreed-upon, “acceptable” levels of injustice for some members of a given population form a part of the genealogy of happiness as critical keyword. The concept of “care”—for a future...

... currencies are continuously created as reinventions upon themselves and upon capitalist practice. The notion of failing forward is key to understanding the creative design of currency alternatives as carrying within itself not only hopes for the future but also the history of prior forms as well...

...Marc Kosciejew The document is one of the oldest material objects of all recorded civilizations, one upon which we are, in many ways, still dependent today. Documentation — that is, documents and their associated practices, institutions, and histories — plays an important role in helping...

... of the Anthropocene to the wider discourse of posthumanism and also touches upon the importance of speculative realism as well as genres like the science-fiction novel to help us conceptualize our new condition. A brief summary of each of the ten essays in the focus section follows. Tobias Boes and Kate Marshall...

... and Drew Barrymore film 50 First Dates (2004) as an example of the utopian film genre that Stanley Cavell identifies as “the comedy of remarriage.” It further draws upon the insights of Alain Badiou to theorize a larger schema of related practices that I name the “evental genres” before exploring in some...

...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...

..., and film criticism by C. Namwali Serpell, renée c. hoogland, and Eugenie Brinkema develop methodologies for exploring how the arts move us — how they impress themselves upon our bodies and create effects in the world. Adding to the current conversation about postcritical reading, surface reading, distant...

... of literature — the side of Socrates least likely to appear in contemporary apologies for the humanities — to bear upon his paradigmatic contribution to the genre of apology. Beginning by remarking the violence of Socrates’s claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living” (the most often quoted line...

... upon the “ineluctable modality of the visible” and his own variegated processes of perception as he takes in the sea and the beach. Each lizard articulates a different perspective on sensory perception and a different modality of reading directed by that perspective, and so the lizards cannot agree...

... in Lee Edelman's polemic, No Future. Subtitled Queer Theory and the Death Drive, the book argues that politics as we know it relies upon a future-oriented logic that is indissociably intertwined with heterosexuality and with what Edelman terms "reproductive futurism." On Edelman's reading...

... 57 58 the minnesota review Jameson then proceeds to outline two vital tasks for future work, drawing upon the insights of both Herbert Marcuse, his then col- league at the University of California, San Diego, and Ernst Bloch, two figures whom Jameson had earlier discussed in Marxism...

... station far behind me. But upon reaching the second crossroads in 1981, when he suggested that I go to grad school (more an assumption on his part than encouragement) I went the other way, taking much-needed time off from school. 27 years passed in a flash! But last fall when I began my MA...

... heavy in the road like a pair of crushed animals. Her skin blooms in the thick book on the shelf. Her skin is a jaw of paper and you will chew it at its careful hinge. You will lay your hands and many eyes upon her. You will lay your hands and many eyes upon her. minnesota review 80 (2013...

... expected, when disappeared a person alters the familiar, its worldly joys and pains. This was his only mission. Americans must deal gently with the Filipino. Once, a patient spit twice upon my mother. Entitled to sympathetic consideration, he punched her in the face. To have an absence forced upon you...

... for the greater good, we 230 the minnesota review forego pleasure for one more report, one more committee meeting. And, in watching us, our students learn to do the same. I’d accordingly like to focus upon this least of the tripartite charge of the professoriate, service...

... if that somewhere is forever collapsing upon itself—even if its very definition is some kind of interminable repudiation. Often what we imagine as the place outside time/space is peopled by, organized by our idea of it—even if that idea is only a reaction...

... that is the basis of the law of value (Marx 1996, 239–43). Instead, the “communism of capital” is based upon the notion that “the traditional opposition between labour and non-labour loses any foundation” (Vercellone 2007, 30) and that, as a result, the law of value based upon the exploitation of labor has...

... relationality Indigenous practice At a certain moment in the development of the environmental humanities, when multispecies studies was emerging, it seemed that “narrative” was being seized upon as the answer to everything, the most effective tool that the humanities had to contribute to cultural...