Category: Volume 24 – Number 1 – September 2013
Notes on Contributors
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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Christopher Breu is Associate Professor of English at Illinois State University, where he teaches classes in twentieth-century and twenty-first-century literature and culture as well as critical and cultural theory. He is the author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota, 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota, 2005). Gerry Canavan is Assistant Professor of English at […]
Seeing Beyond Green
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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Heidi Scott (bio) Florida International University hcscott@fiu.edu Review of Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013. Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green is a collection of essays by mostly well-known scholars in the highly arable field of ecocriticism. The conceit is simple: the color green has […]
Reading the Tendencies
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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Jason Read (bio) University of Southern Maine jason.read@maine.edu Review of Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War. Durham: Duke UP, 2013. Warren Montag has one of the most thankless jobs in contemporary academia. He is the Anglophone world’s best reader of Althusser, which makes him an expert on a philosopher considered at […]
Selfhood beyond the Species Boundary
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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David Herman (bio) Durham University david.herman@durham.ac.uk Review of Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. Berkeley: U of California P, 2013. Growing out of fieldwork conducted in the forests around Ávila, a Quichua-speaking Runa village in Ecuador’s Upper Amazon region, Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think participates in what might be called […]
The Anthropology of the Future
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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Gerry Canavan (bio) Marquette University gerry.canavan@marquette.edu Review of Arjun Appadurai, The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition. New York: Verso, 2013. Arjun Appadurai’s latest collection of essays, The Future as Cultural Fact, begins with a concession. He writes that he has had occasion to learn from critics of his 1996 book, […]
Banality in Comics Studies?
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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Christopher Breu (bio) Illinois State University Review of Nickie D. Phillips and Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice and the American Way. New York: New York UP, 2013. Comic books represent a royal road to the cultural unconscious. That is the operative assumption of Nickie D. Phillips and Staci Strobl’s Comic Book Crime: […]
Zombie Apocalypse as Mindfulness Manifesto (after Žižek)
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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Chris Goto-Jones (bio) Leiden University c.goto-jones@phil.leidenuniv.nl Abstract An icon of horror, the zombie blunders with apparent mindlessness, bringing only contagion and chaos. It has lost its ego, its individuality, its reasoning self. It is a repellent vision of posthumanity. Mindfulness is a therapeutic practice rooted in the meditative traditions of Buddhism. Liberated from the […]
“Down on the Barroom Floor of History”: Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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David Cowart (bio) University of South Carolina cowartd@mailbox.sc.edu Abstract An ironic engagement with history sets Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge apart from other 9/11 fictions. Engaging in a shadow polemic on the historiographical responsibilities of the literary artist, Pynchon critiques a burgeoning technology (the Internet) and the economic order it serves. He presents the […]
Martin Amis’s Money: Negotiations with Literary Celebrity
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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Carey James Mickalites (bio) The University of Memphis cjmcklts@memphis.edu Abstract This essay reads Amis’s Success, Money, and The Information within the context of the contemporary publishing industry, to reveal how this trajectory of novels self-reflexively engages with the production of Amis as a literary celebrity. In each of these works, Amis appropriates the stylistic […]
On Racial Etiquette: Adrian Piper’s My Calling (Cards)
September 25, 2016 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 24, Number 1, September 2013 |
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David Marriott (bio) University of California, Santa Cruz marriott@ucsc.edu Abstract This essay discusses “My Calling Cards, Series 1#” by artist and philosopher Adrian Piper. It examines the notion of etiquette in her work more generally, and discusses why the question of xenia and xenophobia remains crucial to Piper’s art as well as to her Kantian aesthetics. The […]