Category: Volume 26 – Number 3 – May 2016
Notes on Contributors
September 1, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 3, May 2016 |
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Christopher Breu is Professor of English at Illinois State University. He is author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota, 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota, 2005). Judith Goldman is the author of Vocoder (Roof 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006), l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya 2011), and agon (The Operating System 2017). […]
Ruined Vitality
September 1, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 3, May 2016 |
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Adam R. Rosenthal (bio)Texas A&M University A review of Wills, David. Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life. U of Minnesota P, 2016. Inanimation is the third installment of David Wills’s technological trilogy of the human, which began with Prosthesis (1995) and Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics (2008). Like those prior works, Inanimation traces the […]
Intimacies of Exile
September 1, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 3, May 2016 |
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James D. Lilley (bio)University at Albany A review of Agamben, Giorgio. The Use of Bodies. Trans. Adam Kotsko. Stanford UP, 2016. At the close of The Use of Bodies, Giorgio Agamben describes a peculiar mode of thinking that is less concerned with any fixed outcome, goal, or particular purpose than it is with the purely […]
The Neoliberal University
September 1, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 3, May 2016 |
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Christopher Breu (bio)Illinois State University A review of Di Leo, Jeffrey R. Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Academia has been embattled for the last forty years. Uncoincidentally, this same time span has seen the rise of neoliberalism as a cultural ideology, a political practice, and, most devastatingly, […]
From “Walt Whitman’s Inscriptions”
July 30, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 3, May 2016 |
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Lauren Shufran (bio)UC Santa Cruz Recording 1“To Thee Old Cause.” “To Thee Old Cause” Walt Whitman is on Tinder in India. He can’t Stop swiping right; everyone is divine. His lone Grievance is with the screen, the absence Of bodies, of embodiments. The body is where Walt’s poems Begin, after all; like when he claims, […]
Lauren Shufran’s “Walt Whitman’s Inscriptions”
July 28, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 3, May 2016 |
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Judith Goldman (bio)SUNY Buffalo Passage to more than India!Walt Whitman, “Passage to India” (line 224) It is not an obvious time to return to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855-1892).1 Though, as we witness the United States venture ever closer to what seems like civil war and/or the dissolution of a nation, taking insistent strides, […]
Beautiful Things: Bruce Nauman’s Carousel
July 16, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 3, May 2016 |
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Robert S. Lehman (bio)Boston College This essay examines the relationship between beauty and violence in the taxidermy sculptures of the contemporary American artist Bruce Nauman. It addresses how these sculptures, specifically Carousel (Stainless Steel Version) (1988), succeed in bringing together two incompatible models of the beautiful: the neo-classical beauty of well-ordered bodies, and the beauty […]
Salò and the School of Abuse
July 16, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 3, May 2016 |
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Ramsey McGlazer (bio)University of California, Berkeley Abstract Repeatedly, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film, Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975), has been read as prophesying later political realities. This essay instead analyzes Salò‘s insistent backwardness: its interest in dated rituals, fascist politics, “regressive” sexual practices, and outmoded pedagogical forms. By these backward means, the […]
Transgenic Poetry: Loss, Noise, and the Province of Parasites
July 15, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 3, May 2016 |
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Susan Vanderborg (bio)University of South Carolina Abstract Transgenic poetry, in which a verbal text is coded as DNA and placed within a life form, has both extended and called into question some of the most basic generic conventions of poetry. This essay uses theories of parasitic language to examine transgenic poetry’s emphasis on noise and […]