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Abstract: There was a citational oversight in Matthew Rubery’s “The Confession of a Synesthetic Reader” (issue 28:3), which is corrected by the addition of the following footnote on page 353:Editorial Footnote: This passage from Mukhopadhyay’s book has also been treated by Ralph Saravese in his essay “What Some Autistics Can Teach Us About Poetry: A Neurocosmopolitan Approach” (Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies, Ed. Lisa Zunshine, 2015). ... Read More PubDate: 2021-10-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In his essay on what was to become James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Samuel Beckett makes his fascination with uncertainty clear. He writes, “Take the word ‘doubt’ . . . it gives us hardly any sensuous suggestion of hesitancy, of the necessity for choice, of static irresolution. . . . how inadequate ‘doubt’ is to express a state of extreme uncertainty.”1 Beckett appears to distinguish between a tentative misgiving and a more generalized anxiety over having to act without knowing the outcome. Two years prior to the publication of this statement, Werner Heisenberg made uncertainty into a scientific principle in response to the impossibility of simultaneously fixing the location and momentum of subatomic particles. ... Read More PubDate: 2021-10-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In her seminal discussion of the connection between children’s literature and posthumanism, Zoe Jaques argues that children’s books “align with, and often predict, the agendas of posthumanism” and considers “the imaginative and boundary-blurring nature of children’s fiction as a location for shaping posthuman and proto-post-human philosophy as much as a location for exploring the tensions occasioned by it,” offering thus “a heretofore neglected resource for understanding cultures of the human and non-human” and questioning “the nature, parameters and dominion of humanity.”1A highly interdisciplinary area of research, bringing together theoretical and methodological frameworks from disciplines including critical ... Read More PubDate: 2021-10-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Between 1863 and 1905, Jules Verne published the 54 novels that constitute the Extraordinary Voyages, primarily in the family-oriented Magasin d’Education et de Recréation, where they gained enormous popularity, inspired numerous imitators, and came to exemplify the (French) scientific romance. With roots in the Enlightenment genres of the imaginary voyage and conte philosophique, these Voyages were “heterocosmic” in nature: “featuring worlds . . . different from the experienced world,”1 including—notably—other planets, which their authors used as spaces for utopian hypothesizing and to indulge a “passionate interest in distant locales and radically different social perspectives.”2 Verne, however, combined a ... Read More PubDate: 2021-10-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In common parlance, the word utopia conjures ideas of an imaginary “perfect” society. It names a genre of literature descended from Thomas More’s depiction of a happy society on a distant island, and for some, it signifies idealistic, impossible, escapist, or even dangerous social experiments, and should therefore be resisted or dismissed outright. Since the emergence of the academic field of utopian studies in the 1970s, however, utopian scholars, influenced by philosopher Ernst Bloch’s rethinking of utopia in Das Prinzip Hoffnung (1954–59), have sought to reframe the idea of utopia in terms of its role as a catalyst for transformative political desire and action. In The Concept of Utopia (1990), Ruth Levitas ... Read More PubDate: 2021-10-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The milieu is the state in which nature placed us; we are floating in a vast milieu.A few centuries before the contemporary commonsensical usage of milieu had been settled, Newton defined milieu as the “fluid” or ether that envelops bodies in space.1 In the Cartesian mechanist physics of the time, ether explained how discrete bodies separated by distance could act upon each other through gravity, contact, or force. Over the course of modern intellectual history, however, milieu lost its association with ether. What remained in its stead was the vitalist notion of the milieu as a medium or vessel that sustains and informs life, a spatial co-habitance or co-becoming of entangled life and matter. But even as milieu ... Read More PubDate: 2021-10-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Harbinger. Spectacle. The seedling of an evil thing. An unveiling. A forbidding. The horrifying and transgressive. When we speak of monsters, we speak with mixed voices of many things. In each formulation, an incompleteness shines through: there is something both unsettling and inarticulable about what we have confronted, a crisis of category and form. In its discovery, a monster is resistant to the already-known; it provides a hermeneutic challenge to the reified and reliable structures of meaning, time, and discourse that much of our thinking, both academic and quotidian, relies on for descriptive power. As in the classic stories of Dracula, Grendel, and Cthulhu, our thinking only approaches from behind, along ... Read More PubDate: 2021-10-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Within the debates surrounding the naming of our current geological epoch, one thing is consistent among critics and advocates alike of the label “the Anthropocene”: the world we live in has been unalterably changed and we cannot say with certainty what the full scope of those changes has been or will be. David Farrier’s ambitious Anthropocene Poetics sets out to uncover the rough texture of reality often smoothed over by anthropocenic narratives that focus on humanity’s power as a geologic agent. Farrier identifies poetics as fertile intellectual ground to explore our entanglements with deep time through the geologic material of the planet, the “shadow places” of global capitalist exploitation, and the tensions ... Read More PubDate: 2021-10-18T00:00:00-05:00
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