Category: Volume 30 – Number 1 – September 2019
Notes on Contributors
January 6, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 1, September 2019 |
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Kevin Cooley is a PhD Candidate in the English Department at the University of Florida, where he works with animation, visual culture, and queer media. He is managing editor of ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, guest editor for Synoptique‘s special issue “Animating LGBTQ+ Representations,” and the 2020 recipient of the Lucy Shelton Caswell Award from the […]
Earth on the Frontier: the Environment as Consistent Relation
January 6, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 1, September 2019 |
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Chris Malcolm (bio) A review of Neyrat, Frédéric. The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation. Translated by Drew S. Burk, Fordham UP, 2019. Frédéric Neyrat’s The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation is a wide-ranging study of what Neyrat calls “geo-constructivism” (the French subtitle is Critique du Geoconstructivisme): his term for the scientific, economic, and […]
A Quiet Manifesto
January 5, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 1, September 2019 |
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Nathaniel Likert (bio) A review of Kramnick, Jonathan. Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness. U of Chicago P, 2018. Literary studies has recently seen a sharp uptick in interest in all things broadly “empirical:” from the influx of cognitive approaches (Lisa Zunshine, Alan Palmer) to sociological methods (Heather Love) to science studies (Bruno […]
Acting Otherwise: Literary Justice and the Politics of Compassion
January 5, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 1, September 2019 |
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Walter A. Johnston (bio) A review of Weber, Elisabeth. Kill Boxes: the Legacy of Torture, Drone Warfare, and Indefinite Detention. Punctum Books, 2017. In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt argues that the distinctively totalitarian strategy of absolute mobilization produces among the ruled not only the feeling of constant motion, but—by virtue of the inscrutable […]
Pygmalion Punks:The Shared Stitches of Puppetry and the Sex Pistols
January 5, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 1, September 2019 |
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Kevin Cooley (bio) Abstract The essay turns to a rarely acknowledged but rich contextual overlap between puppetry, on the one hand, and punk sartorial and musical cultures, on the other. Through readings of two texts that present this overlap most clearly, namely, the film Labyrinth (1986) and the sitcom The Young Ones (1982-84), it shows […]
On Being Worthy of the Event:Four Fukushima Stoics
January 5, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 1, September 2019 |
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Margherita Long (bio) Abstract This essay reads the testimonies of four Fukushima women interviewed by journalist Iwakami Yasumi in the summer and fall of 2011. At the time, mandatory evacuations had emptied the zones closest to the triple meltdowns, but people in surrounding areas were left to decide for themselves: should they stay at their […]
Garbage Infrastructure, Sanitation, and New Meanings of Citizenship in Lebanon
January 5, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 1, September 2019 |
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Joanne Randa Nucho (bio) Abstract In 2015, protestors south of Beirut, Lebanon, blocked the road to the landfill in Naimeh, an improperly prepared and overflowing dumpsite that serves as a collection point for Beirut’s garbage. As piles of garbage grew on Beirut’s streets, so did a massive protest that was not defined or organized by […]
Cinematic Masculinity in the Age of Finance
January 4, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 1, September 2019 |
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Mark Steven (bio) Abstract This essay shows how popular cinema represents financialization and finance capitalism by leveraging male stardom as an allegory for superannuated forms of productive labor in Cosmopolis (2012), Dark Knight Rises (2012), Magic Mike (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), and The Big Short (2015). Building on […]