Category: Volume 29 – Number 2 – January 2019
Notes on Contributors
December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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John Freeman is a Renaissance scholar with a wide range of research and teaching interests, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Thomas More’s Utopia to digital and popular culture (such as the MTV series “Catfish”). His recent publications include “Tupac’s ‘Holographic Resurrection’: Corporate Takeover or Rage against the Machinic?” (CTheory) and “Shakespeare’s Imitation Game, or: How Do […]
Being Fascinated: Toward Blanchotian Film Theory
December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Mikko Tuhkanen (bio) A review of Watt, Calum. Blanchot and the Moving Image: Fascination and Spectatorship. Legenda, 2017. In The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (2002), Mary Ann Doane not only maps the new technology’s historical context—masterfully analyzing cinema’s place in the constellation of such nineteenth-century discourses as thermodynamics, eugenics, statistic, and […]
Derrida’s Relevance
December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Andrew Kingston (bio) A review of Crockett, Clayton. Derrida after the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism. Fordham UP, 2017. Clayton Crockett has written and edited multiple books on theology, psychoanalysis, and contemporary continental theory. Derrida after the End of Writing represents his first text explicitly dedicated to the work of Jacques Derrida. […]
Beside Reparative Reading
December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Brian Glavey (bio) A review of Tyler Bradway, Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. For better or worse, queer theory has always had, if not a bad reputation, at least a reputation for badness. Animated by a commitment to subversion and non-conformism on the one hand, and organized around […]
Indefinite Urbanism:Airport Noise and Atmospheric Encounters in Los Angeles
December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Marina Peterson (bio) Abstract “Indefinite urbanism” is the aerial drawn into perceptibility through noise, glass resonating with aircraft noise and infrastructural edge spaces that remain as traces of a history of now inaudible sound. As the age of commercial air travel dawned in Southern California, those living around Los Angeles International Airport turned toward the […]
Nature’s Queer Negativity:Between Barad and Deleuze
November 30, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Steven Swarbrick (bio) Abstract This essay offers a critique of the vitalist turn in queer and ecological theory, here represented by the work of Karen Barad. Whereas Barad advances an image of life geared towards meaningful connection with others, human and nonhuman, Deleuze advances an a-signifying ontology of self-dismissal. The point of this essay isn’t […]
Code Poetry in Motion: E.E. Cummings and his Digital Grasshopper
November 27, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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John Freeman (bio) Abstract This essay argues E. E. Cummings’s “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” (1935) anticipates the contemporary practice of experimental writing known as codework. Encoding through typographical means the action sequence of the grasshopper’s leap, Cummings transformed his mechanical typewriter into the equivalent of a hardware device supplied with the necessary software for running the poem as […]
Homo Probabilis, Behavioral Economics, and the Emotional Life of Neoliberalism
November 27, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Michael Millner (bio) Abstract Neoliberalism often operates by privatizing what was once public and by turning questions of moral value into questions of market finance. This essay expands our understanding of these operations by examining the way neoliberalism takes hold at the most intimate level—the level of feeling. It argues that the field known as […]