Category: Volume 30 – Number 3 – May 2020
Radical Friends: Botany and Us
September 13, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 3, May 2020 |
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Erin Obodiac (bio) A review of Meeker, Natania and Antónia Szabari. Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction. Fordham UP, 2020. In The Groves of Academe (1952), Mary McCarthy begins her campus novel with a Latin epigraph from Horace: Atque inter silvas academi quaerere verum (and seek for truth in the garden of Academe, Epistle II, […]
“This book … of traces and tremors, if book it be”
September 12, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 3, May 2020 |
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Cory Austin Knudson (bio) Taussig, Michael. Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown. U Chicago P, 2020. In Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown, anthropologist and ethnographer Michael Taussig confronts the reciprocal problems of theorizing and representing climate change. In this, he joins a popular strain of contemporary environmental humanities literature that […]
Reasons for Self-Dislocating
September 12, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 3, May 2020 |
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Miriam Jerade (bio) A review of Cadahia, Luciana, and Ana Carrasco-Conde, editors. Fuera de sí mismas. Motivos para dislocarse. Herder, 2020. This edited collection features contributions by Spanish-speaking women scholars who share the same motif—self-dislocation. The eleven authors seek to question the locus of philosophy and the discourses that frame it. The book is founded […]
Idyllic Visions of the Past and/or the Death Drive? Right-Wing Responses to a Crisis of Futurity
September 12, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 3, May 2020 |
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Adam Dylan Hefty (bio) A review of Nilges, Mathias. Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism: Regression and Hope in a Time Without Future. EPUB, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Something is different about time in late capitalism. Whatever this something is, it has intensified with the fall of 20th century communism, the increasing financialization of capital, and the […]
Fictionalizing Marx, or Towards Non-Dialectics: Baudrillard and Laruelle
September 12, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 3, May 2020 |
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Jonathan Fardy (bio) Abstract This essay offers a comparative reading of the post-Marxian work of Jean Baudrillard and François Laruelle, arguing that both thinkers seek to establish a way forward for theory that remains faithful to the spirit of Marxism without reaffirming dialectics. In order to do so, both turn to the concept and strategy […]
Negative Ecology: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty at 50
September 12, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 3, May 2020 |
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John Culbert (bio) Abstract This essay reassesses the significance of Robert Smithson’s land art for environmental politics in a time of climate crisis. Drawing on analyses of fossil capital and petrocultures, it argues that Smithson’s aesthetics of entropy—particularly as conveyed in the 1970 earthwork Spiral Jetty—provide a valuable dialectical methodology for critical theory in the […]
Choreographies of Consent: Clarice Lispector’s Epistemology of Ignorance
September 11, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 3, May 2020 |
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Rocío Pichon-Rivière (bio) Abstract This essay argues that, after studying law, Clarice Lispector never abandoned her engagement with political theory, and shows that her fiction and chronicles were a continuation of her philosophy of law by other means. Lispector developed an epistemology of ignorance through the analysis of two key social practices: “choreographies of consent” […]
So-Called Indigenous Slavery: West African Historiography and the Limits of Interpretation
September 11, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 3, May 2020 |
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Sara-Maria Sorentino (bio) Abstract This essay explores the mobilization of so-called “indigenous slavery” in the historiography of slavery in West Africa in order to expose the limits of historiographical interpretation and the tensions between black studies and African studies, which are here constituted around a shared negativity. This discussion provides some context for the debates […]
Notes on Contributors
September 11, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 30, Number 3, May 2020 |
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John Culbert John Culbert is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Paralyses: Literature, Travel and Ethnography in French Modernity (Nebraska 2010). His article “The Well and the Web” appeared in Postmodern Culture 19.2. Jonathan Fardy Jonathan Fardy is Assistant Professor of Art History […]