Category: Volume 31 – Number 3 – May 2021
Horrible Beauty: Robin Coste Lewis’s Black Aesthetic Practice
June 27, 2023 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Matthew Scully (bio) Abstract In Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (2015), Robin Coste Lewis deploys “horrible beauty” as a dissensual aesthetic experience that challenges the perceiving subject. To experience horrible beauty, in Lewis’s poetry, is to be called to reflect on and critique the pathologies of whiteness upheld and perpetuated by aesthetic […]
Notes on Contributors
December 1, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Sharon P. Holland is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Raising The Dead: Readings Of Death And (Black) Subjectivity (Duke UP, 2000), and co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture, […]
A Disordered Review of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos
December 1, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Sean Yeager (bio) A review of Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred. Bold Type Books, 2021. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s new book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, offers one possible answer to Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s question, “how might black feminism … imagine […]
Pork to the Future
December 1, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Steven Ruszczycky (bio) A review of Florêncio, João. Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig Routledge, 2020. It is difficult to overstate the impact that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had on gay erotic culture. Whether one experienced life in the bathhouses before its outbreak or came of age in the chastened era […]
Patterns within Grids
December 1, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Susanna Paasonen (bio) A review of Roach, Tom. Screen Love: Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era. SUNY Press, 2021. What would follow from detaching considerations of hookup apps from simplistic, pessimistic diagnoses of neoliberal commodification and exploitation, and from coupling critiques of the data economy with a potential queer ethics of relating instead? These are […]
No Country for Old White Men: Living at the Boundary of Blackness
December 1, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Sharon P. Holland (bio) A review of Bennett, Joshua. Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man. Harvard UP, 2020. Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. New York UP, 2020. No one will dispute that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has set the stage for deeper engagements with our […]
My Mother’s Bones: The Photographic Bodies of Camera Lucida and Halving the Bones
December 1, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Chelsea Oei Kern (bio) Abstract This essay brings together Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Ruth Ozeki’s documentary Halving the Bones in order to situate the conceit of maternal photography within discourses of social and racial reproduction. Although Barthes’s theory of photography neglects race, it prepares the ground for a logic of maternal reproduction through photography […]
Mediating Neo-Feudalism
December 1, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Travis Workman (bio) Abstract This essay discusses contemporary film and media in relation to the political economic concept of neo-feudalism. Questioning the application of a science-fiction dialectics to these media and the tendency to see them as symptoms of the rise of neofascism, the essay rather connects their themes, narratives, and visual styles to Marxist […]
Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains
December 1, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Miriam Posner (bio) Abstract Supply chain management (SCM) deals with the procurement and assembly of goods, from raw material to the consumer. With the growing prevalence of offshore manufacturing and suppliers’ reliance on “just-in-time” inventory management, SCM has become both astoundingly complex and critical to companies’ competitiveness. This essay examines how data works in global […]
Alain Badiou’s Age of the Poets: The Desacralizing of the Poem
December 1, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 31, Number 3, May 2021 |
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Alberto Moreiras (bio) Abstract This essay examines Alain Badiou’s claims concerning the historical end of what he calls “the Age of the Poets”: a configuration of thought that keeps philosophy sutured to poetry, which can never be the only condition of philosophy but merely one of them. The Age of the Poets stretches from Friedrich […]