Category: Volume 27 – Number 1 – September 2016
Notes on Contributors
September 22, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 1, September 2016 |
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Gila AshtorGila Ashtor received her PhD from Tufts University (2016). Her research areas include queer and affect theory, psychoanalysis, trauma and gender studies and twentieth-century American literature. She is currently at work on a book-length project on the metapsychological foundations of contemporary critical theory. She is a candidate in psychoanalytic training at the Institute for […]
Worlding World Literature
September 22, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 1, September 2016 |
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Emily Sibley (bio)New York University A review of Cheah, Pheng. What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. Duke University Press, 2016. The basic premises of Pheng Cheah’s book are encapsulated in its title: first, that any consideration of world literature requires a return to theorizing “world” beyond its spatial dimensions, and second, […]
The Cynical Generation
September 22, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 1, September 2016 |
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Graham J. Matthews (bio)Nanyang Technological University A review of Mandel, Naomi. Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2015. The idea that the people who make up a generation share certain characteristics dates back to the mid-nineteenth century French lexicographer and philosopher, Émile Littré, whose authoritative Dictionnaire de la langue française (1863–72) […]
Marc Fichou’s Habitus Video Feedback Art in a Philosophical Context
September 22, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 1, September 2016 |
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Stefan Mattessich (bio)Santa Monica College French-born artist Marc Fichou has exhibited an intriguing body of work in a string of shows around L.A.: “Contenant Contenu” at the Robert Berman gallery (January–February 2013), “Ouroboros” at the Young Projects gallery (January–April 2014), “Outside-In” at the Chimento Contemporary (June–July 2016), and, most recently, “Uncertainty,” a group show at […]
Figures of Refusal
September 21, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 1, September 2016 |
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Adam Haaga (bio)Memorial University of Newfoundland A review of Goh, Irving. The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject. New York: Fordham UP, 2014. Motivated in large part by Jean-Luc Nancy’s question, “who comes after the subject?,” Irving Goh’s book delivers a reply, provocatively arguing in favor of the reject, a figure resistant to […]
Low Theory for the End of Pre-History
September 21, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 1, September 2016 |
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Diletta De Cristofaro (bio)University of Birmingham A review of Wark, McKenzie. Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene. London: Verso, 2016. Print. McKenzie Wark’s Molecular Red is a provocative call for new critical theory – or “new-old” (Wark xii), given its roots in marginalized strands of the Marxist tradition – for the age of the Anthropocene. […]
Secular Stagnation: Fear of a Non-Reproductive Future
September 21, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 1, September 2016 |
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Melinda Cooper (bio)University of Sydney Abstract In the wake of the global financial crisis, a number of high profile economists have sought to revive Alvin Hansen’s Depression-era theory of “secular stagnation” to account for the stagnant tendencies in the American economy, citing Japan as a cautionary tale of combined demographic and economic decline. Following Hansen, […]
Looting: A Colonial Genealogy of the Contemporary Idea
September 21, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 1, September 2016 |
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Amanda Armstrong (bio)University of Michigan Abstract This article deploys a genealogy of looting to mark out a history of the present. Looting entered the English language in the mid-nineteenth century. During its first decades of use, the term helped naturalize racial violence enacted along imperial infrastructures. Looting’s early history not only gives us insight into […]
September 21, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 27, Number 1, September 2016 |
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Two Girls2: Sedgwick + Berlant, Relational and Queer Gila Ashtor (bio)Tufts University Abstract This essay asks what relationality has to do with self-transformation by analysing Lauren Berlant’s reading of Mary Gaitskill’s novel, “Two Girls, Fat and Thin,” an essay in which Berlant reads her own relationship to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick through the novel’s lens. This […]