... various currencies throughout Europe from the 1990s onward—many of which have been funded by political bodies. Alternative moneys never succeeded in the sense that they never achieved their ambitious goal of creating resilient, localized economies. The article outlines how this rapid rise and fall...

... in Vicuña’s poetic lyric unlocks ways of building community from the various acts of expressing rights, self, and being. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014 Works Cited Bauman Zygmunt . 1998 . Globalization: The Human Consequences . New York : Columbia University Press . Beck Ulrich . 1998...

...Bruce Holsinger This essay investigates the compelling affinities between the premodern mythographic tradition and the various schools of thought grouped under the rubrics of speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and vitalism. Like mythography proper, much of this work entails...

...” to depict the unspeakable reality of life in contemporary China. Writers always have the inclination to challenge the parameters of life in various aspects and play against censorship, but due to ideological reasons, censors in China focus more on political issues than on moral ones, and consequently in Mo...

...D. Vance Smith This article examines the various limits of knowledge in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale as a critique of finitude in object-oriented philosophy and speculative realism. The phrase “death shall be dead” is the form of the receding limits that emerge when finitude is revoked, the lack...

... and profoundly affected by how individual professors interpret their freedom to teach, conduct research, disseminate scholarship, speak in public on controversial issues, or criticize institutional policies and practices. Given that college professors use various definitions of academic freedom...

...Mia You “Rouse the Ruse and the Rush” is a long poetic sequence the author composed between 2020 and 2021, amidst various waves of COVID-19 outbreaks and the acceleration of “pro-life” efforts in the United States to restrict access to abortions at local levels and, ultimately, to overturn Roe v...

... them in a more doubtful light, Brennan looks at various theoretical moments of the immediate past: for example, the “subaltern,” the “multitude,” and the post-human. He observes along the way that the humanities themselves, paradoxically, have become the institution devoted to showing the absurdity...

...), and varieties of Eurenglish (various European contexts). This second view opens avenues of agency and ownership unavailable when global standardized English is imposed as an ideal. The existing linguistics hierarchy of native English speakers over nonnative speakers breaks down. This article explores the native...

...Florian Zappe Abstract This introduction provides a short survey of the history of academic culture wars as a recurring phenomenon in the history of the modern university. It then outlines the concept of this special section as a nonpartisan and metaperspectival critical discussion of various...

... it from something that is intangible into something that Kosciejew  99 is tangible that, in turn, can be used by many different actors for various purposes in diverse settings. David Levy (2001) argues that documentation helps to construct, represent...

.... We had a small reading group in the late sixties that I started together with some friends, and it soon morphed into annual meetings in which we invited various specialists to look critically at the material written on the Middle East by Orientalists as well as by others. We invited...

... literary cartography, so this did involve a sense of interdisciplinarity insofar as various types of literary criticism could be combined with philosophy, geography, social theory, and so forth. Notably, the English Department s doctoral program at Pittsburgh is called the PhD in Cultural and Critical...

... that its arguments are still relevant after almost a decade. I had hoped, against my own presentiments, that some of the processes described herein the corporatization of the university in its various forms in primis would have reversed or at least slowed down, but they have only accelerated...

... difficult to draw clear lines between literary studies and various other academic disciplines. Although English departments still defend their respective territory and circumscribe, to some extent, acceptable objects of inquiry, many recent works of literary criticism are avowedly interdisciplinary...

... and Vik- tor Shklov­sky, sometimes Derrida and Erving Goffman. For a few years it was Kant and Bourdieu. In its final spinoff at Brown, it was Nietzsche, Foucault, and Latour. But certain themes were recurrent, including various angles on language and aesthetics. I subtitled the MLA talk...

...-political institutions. This last point in particular is crucial for Goldstein's project, allowing him to move from traditional Marxism to various post-Marxist theories, all of which acknowledge the (post-)modern diversification of social spheres as well as the irreducible multiplicity of social...

... deadline she found herself at various shopping centers, an hour into their final hour, craving “mature pineapple farm” nail polish, socks with various dessert images, and pastel stationeries. All the items listed and more and then four multicolored mini-binoc- ulars later, she realized that none...

... to keep in mind the dynamical aspect of creative processes, which evolve throughout the creative work. Hence, while the antenarrative of having an idea may evolve into various fully formed narratives (and thus different creative outcomes), or may never get there at all, we may go back from time to time...

... nuanced ontologies sidestep such an absolutized account and instead show sensitivity to the scalar features of various phenomena and their perspectival contexts—so that, for important example, “human nature” is neither categorically reified (as if evolution...