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...Andrew Cole This essay is a critique of actor-network theory (ANT), vitalism, and object-oriented ontology (OOO, or “speculative realism”), as advanced by Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, and Graham Harman and his colleagues. It focuses on the contradiction within these newer philosophies. Each holds...

...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...

... quarrels with Ernesto Laclau and others remain a discussion among comrades, in the spirit of an antagonism vital to any political movement. In her latest book, The Communist Horizon , she argues in favor of a new communism and a new communist party capable of uniting the Left against neoliberal capitalism...

...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...

... understanding: life craves only its own intensities; life desires.1 A fter all, dialogue is the locus where mutual prehension (a notion that bears Alfred North Whitehead s signature) takes place. To couch it in Henri Bergson s language, creativity is the manifestation of élan vital. The Flusserian view...

... with Rosi Braidotti) . Frieze , August 12 , www.frieze.com/article/borrowed-energy . Vitale Christopher . 2010 . “Queering Speculative Realism?” Networkologies (blog) , June 8 , www.networkologies.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/queering-speculative-realism . Stanimir Panayotov...

... that complex networks escape human control and that inanimate things, like electronics or wind, can set off unintended consequences. Edibles, commodities, storms, and metals act as quasi agents, with their own trajectories, potenti- alities, and tendencies. Such things are lively, with a vitality...

... 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...

.... Outside, lesser talents, long forgotten, walk again. Silas Weir Mitchell, worn, torn, but in hale spirit, greets James Branch Cabell. That inadvertent unremembered live again in this scholarship of imposture is cause for celebration, for if the vital fiction of generations...

... might involve, in Denise Ferreira Da Silva s (2017: n.p.) words, the disruptive/creative capacity that blackness hosts/holds. 1 Danez Smith challenges the vitalism of the commons the concept s quasi-messi- anic belief in the unbridled potential of collective life through a lyric reconsideration of life...

...Marc McKee © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Marc McKee Alternating Current Look how fast the past catches up to us 5 minutes ago says one and ta da!: the trivial vital, task more light-laden, a shadow-colored surgery of regenesis as we taxi in the ambulate...

... a postanthropo- centric 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 pos- iting the autopoiesis of things, new materialism inverts its own basis in commodity...

...: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times . New York : Walker , 2008 . Schlesinger Arthur M. Jr. The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom . 1949 . New Brunswick : Transaction P , 1998 . Smith Jean Edwards . FDR . New York : Random House...

... mix of voices and ideas to create afresh take on a vital and still disap• pointingly overlooked notion: that class counts. I urge anyone serious about under• standing workers and working-class culture in America to read this book. " —Alfred Lubrano, author of Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots...

... arrhythmic weather” (246). On the other side of the planet, Kirsty Dunn (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi), in her mixed genre work included here, “‘By Eel's Verve’: Toward Tuna,” underscores how recognizing that tuna's own, distinctive stories and perspectives can be vital for justice: “Tuna are our whanaunga...

... pay ^H attention whenever Sherry tee Unkon and John Russo publish. Here they've combinedymbined W the perfect mix of voices and ideas to create afresh take on a vital and still disap•sap- pointingly overlooked notion: that class counts. I urge anyone serious...

... indeed played a vital role in the former, it appears rather feeble in the latter. Consequently, modern Chinese literature and culture are little known to the outside world, although we cer- tainly recognize the fact that through translation modern Chinese literature is closer to the mainstream...

..., and the Prosthetics of War, 1945 – 2005,” unravels the way that disability has allowed for the performance of homosexuality in the military without risk to the masculinity so crucial to that environment. Serlin finds that prosthesis affirms heterosexuality and vitality...

... . Altermodern . London : Tate . Braidotti Rosi Dolphijn Rick . 2014 . This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life . Leiden, Netherlands : Brill Rodopi . Colebrook Claire . 2009 . “ Queer Vitalism .” New Formations 68 , no. 1 : 77 – 92 . Combes Muriel . 2013...

... of Hine (Hineaterepo—“wife” of Māui), Tuna, and Māui are represented in trialogue form. 8 Of particular interest to me is the way that Tuwhare ( 1974 ) represents Hine somewhat subversively as being “moved / as water moved” by the vitality and audacity of Tuna, who understands that “she is water...