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Abstract: In what has been broadly called the ecological turn within the humanities and social sciences, relationships among internal affects, external environments, and aesthetic representations have revitalized discussions of historical phenomenology and materialism in literary history.1 This ecological turn, alongside more recently established new materialist philosophies, synthesizes critical space theory, rhetorics of affect and ambience, and phenomenological approaches across diverse fields.2 New materialism and an attention to ecologies can offer a lens through which we can interrogate how bodies and spaces inhabit one another. By inhabitation, I intend both dwellings and practices: how spaces and bodies situate one ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-23T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On May 24, 1854, Anthony Burns was arrested while walking down the street after work. Burns worked at a used-clothing store on Brattle Street in Boston and was seized that day by slave catchers acting under the authority of the Fugitive Slave Law. Although the first slave catcher to approach him initially accused him of being a thief—likely to disarm him—the only crime of which Burns was guilty was having escaped his enslavement in Virginia. His ensuing trial and reenslavement were expeditious. Just over a week later, on June 2, Burns had been found guilty and was being guided through the streets of downtown Boston by marines and other federal troops to the harbor, where he would be placed on a ship at Long Wharf—a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-23T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A woman glimpses the constellation Orion near the beginning of Leslie Scalapino's first detective novel. She has been talking with a group of friends in a San Francisco coffee shop. When another woman starts ridiculing her, she steps outside. "She begins to weep, and this is such a relief. She looks up and can see the stars. There is Orion. Orion is lying on his side, falling into the Southern Hemisphere."1 The constellation's movements—hunting across the sky earlier and earlier each winter night until, by spring, only its plunge across the horizon is visible after sundown—provide a resonant background. They give the novel its name, Orion. The woman works as a private investigator. The cases she pursues dissipate ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-23T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Can there be a creativity to labor, in and for itself' This essay will propose that the structure of much modern proletarian labor, founded on an hourly wage, renders labor a simulacrum: its appropriation of quantified time inevitably leads to a confusion of function with performance. In this context, it will direct interest towards the intensities of experience that human conceptions of temporality seek to harness by reading how these particular forms of labor nullify those—or rather, overwrite them. To do so, I want to observe the labor contract as a literary text and investigate the properties of its signature in a similar manner to how theories of deconstruction treat the latter in relation to literature—not ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-23T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Cruising Utopia (2009), José Esteban Muñoz proposes a strategy of critical hope that is actively practiced in response to a "here and now" that is not enough, especially for minoritarian subjects.1 Muñoz draws on this concept from the work on concrete utopia by Marxist philosopher Ernest Bloch to describe a type of hope that is indeterminate, anticipatory, and revolutionary. It is what Muñoz would later describe as "not announcing the way things ought to be, but, instead, imagining the way things could be."2 The practice and potentiality of critical hope (also referred to as "educated desire") underpins many of Muñoz's theoretical projects, including his final work, The Sense of Brown (2020). Published seven ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-23T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) is one of several key texts through which Lyndsey Stonebridge crafts the elegant, satisfying chapters of her latest, Writing & Righting. Stonebridge's small book packs the same genre of punch for readers now as Sontag's did when it was published, just after the Abu Ghraib torture photos had been released, when Sontag's questions carried ethical urgency: What is the purpose of looking at images of atrocity' If the atrocity has already happened, and suffering cannot be alleviated because of the evidence the image provides, how does the act of looking do anything but consolidate the viewer's sense of safety by comparison'For Stonebridge, the question concerns ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-23T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In her latest monograph, Erica Rand brings the intimate writing style and focus on the embodied experiences of race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability that characterized her previous book, Red Nails, Black Skates (2012), expanding her scope beyond the skating rink and in provocative new directions.1 The Small Book of Hip Checks argues for the hips as an overdetermined corporeal site where multiple histories, cultural norms, social processes, and identifications collide. Rand asserts that "as racialized and classed markers of gender and sexuality, hips bear weight and meaning, fate and contradiction" (1). With careful attention to the ways in which hips are socially constructed as texts, Rand resists ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-23T00:00:00-05:00
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