...David Salner © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 34 the minnesota review David Salner Summer Words 0n the Iron Range, with Plutarch, a co-worker, and Bob Dylan The first time I got laid off from US Steel, I went into the woods...

...Sheng Anfeng In this interview, W. J. T. Mitchell discusses many issues of concern to his readers. He talks about the relationship between art and environment and between images and words. For him, iconology at its foundation is not just about images but also about words; it is about investigating...

...Peter Hitchcock; Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock These theses are meant not as the final word on the concept or praxis of the commons but as words inspiring readers to imagine alternatives to the status quo. They cover topics including social reproduction, the knowledge...

...Vanita Reddy; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude . Patel’s migritude poetics resonates...

... of migritude,” as Lila Azam Zanganeh notably called her. Moving from the rich exegeses of the liminal, haunted, frequently abjected, migritude conditions of her fictional—and often autobiographical—heroines, Diome has now arrived inside the Hexagon, where her words harmonize with a sizable chorus of interior...

... of these. In the words of Karen Barad, this turn inquired as to why meaning, history, and truth are assigned to language only, whereas the movements of materiality are given less prominence: “How did language come to be more trustworthy than matter? Why are language and culture granted their own agency and historicity...

... 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...

...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...

...James J. Pulizzi The word Anthropocene purposely draws our attention to the anthropos , the humans who are now changing the planet’s climate. We must not forget, however, what media theorists and philosophers like Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, and Bernard Stiegler have pointed out—humans...

... (from Marx and Engels to Bloch and Jameson), I nevertheless (with utopians of the Left such as Ruth Levitas) step into the warm stream of a “militant optimism,” in Bloch's words, that aims to set free “the repressed elements of the new, humanized society.” I therefore examine the dialectical tension...

... is that the discourse of global English needs to expand well beyond disciplinary and curricular concerns to consider English as the literal and metaphoric operating system for a social matrix that is at once networked and informational. If the discourse of global English is to have any critical purchase, in other words...

...Michelle Donahue Copyright © 2019 Michelle Donahue 2019 Michelle Donahue A Complete Birding Guide for Montana I found the bird the day my daughter lost her words. She opened her mouth, eyes unblinking and innocent as the cows in the meadow. How strange and instinctive to ascribe innocence...

... and legality—all of which are universal concerns and are therefore subject to dispute. Since this is his main positive point in the domain of politics, it is worth quoting Michaels at length: Ideological conflicts are universal, in other words, precisely because...

.... But it is the creative I find most troubling. Adjacent to critical or criticism or nonfiction or writing, creative is objectionable not just for its suggestion of sanctimonious, godlike power but also in terms of the pure spontaneity and nonderivativeness the word implies. The ex nihilo creative is, ironically...

... of hope. To believe that I ll maybe get out of this shelter and that home will be a safe place again. I don t like the sound of the word maybe. Words like free, safety, mother, and love were wrinkly bits of light. Let that word go. Because if the darkness is going to come, let the darkness come...

... was a new word. The movement of Eve’s mouth pressing into her first apple was an entire sentence: Thank you for choice. Every flick of Leonardo’s painting hand said I am awed to be alive. The inward pull of Gandhi’s hungry flesh was courage. My daughter Sarah...

... words.) But I know now that you re not married because you live alone on Middle Street and you stay at school until six and you usually buy your meals at the co-op on your way home, and I m pretty sure they re microwavable and only serve food for one. For awhile, I didn t think you were worth observing...

... not. The barn swallows are leaving. K’s asleep, the computer’s humming, let’s forget about story, please, unfurl your old hips, we’ll find a new word, you didn’t love him, right, the word, it was only a physical thing, a new word for what we have, turn around, I’ll press the word into you, typewriter...

... of William and Mary and the host of an internationally acclaimed podcast titled Of Gollums and Grendels Dora was a bilingual toddler, fluent in High-Elven and English, but she lost High-Elven before kindergarten, presumably due to the difficulty of working in words like anduril (flame-of-the-west...