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ISSN (Print) 0049-2426 - ISSN (Online) 1527-2095
Published by U of Wisconsin Press

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In/habitable
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  Abstract: L’inhabitable—the uninhabitable—was the bass note sounding through all of the work of Georges Perec, less a category than what categories failed to insure against: the depersonalizing, devitalizing, dark matter of modern histories and geographies, as scandalous as it was ubiquitous. At the end of Espèces d’espaces (1974), Perec would parse “the uninhabitable” into a litany of alienating spaces produced by the very processes of (techno-scientific-military-) industrial advancement and urban growth:L’inhabitable: la mer dépotoir, les côtes hérissées de fils de fer barbelés, la terre pelée, la terre charnier, les monceaux de carcasses, les fleuves bourbiers, les villes nauséabondes […]L’inhabitable: l’étriqué ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
In the Doldrums: Plastic, Haunting and the Sea
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  Abstract: And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: “Look at this Godawful mess.”GONZALO: Mark well what I say: imagine the giant chimney of a lamp, travelling as fast as a galloping horse but whose center remains as impassive as the Cyclops’ eye. It is precisely this realm of ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
A Home for the Ghosts: On the Diorama as Inhabited Landscape
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  Abstract: When a being, human or nonhuman, dies […] what world leaves the world, the world we are left with'In the beginning was an uninhabited island, where a single tree stood. One day, an exiled Indian prince settled on this small piece of dry land and fell in love with the daughter of the king of the nagas, the mythical underwater serpents. In honor of their union and to give them a home where they could cultivate rice, the king swallowed the ocean, extending the island into a kingdom that became Cambodia (Ly 104). Contemporary narratives of the Anthropocene, where the trope of the island recurs as a last refuge in the wake of an ecological catastrophe, read like an inversion of the founding Khmer legend. In our current ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
Olivier Rolin: Habitation in the Empiritext
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  Abstract: What does it mean to travel, write, and in the process interrogate and rewrite history' In traveling, how does one inhabit the history of the region through which one travels, reading the traces of delusion, terror, and suspicion, deciphering what may never have been there, should never have been there, or may even threaten one’s right to be there' In the case of the French writer Olivier Rolin, these are crucial questions because he travels in Russia, in the often desolate and uninhabitable spaces of the “former Soviet Union,” social and geographic trajectories that intersect in unpredictable ways in and out of his writing and rewriting practices.In an important article, the critic Joshua Armstrong defines what he ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
Tellurian Nietzsche and the (Un)inhabitable Eternal Return
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  Abstract: A Messinese fresco, painted by world-renowned Italian graffiti artist Blu (Sicilia, 2013), underscores the ongoing more-than-human ecological catastrophes, staging, in a manner either fleeting or contemplative depending on one’s walking or driving pace in Messina, the question of (un)inhabitability. In a spectacular and tragically provocative reversal, Blu chose for his protagonist species the swordfish, known foremost as a culinary specialty in the Sicilian city closest to mainland Italy, where the strait’s (in)famous currents facilitate intensive fishing. The quasi-Dantesque painting’s fish tear the nets that humans are caught in, cast by massive city boats with imposing churches, smoke-producing factories, and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
Lascaux IV, Chauvet II, Planet B
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  Abstract: Birds, frogs, plants, even languages go extinct. Paintings on the other hand, because they lack the very things that extinction would take away from them—life and collective existence—are destroyed or defaced. A few years ago, the International Committee for the Preservation of Lascaux (ICPL) website envisioned an intermediary position in the form of a startling headline: “Cave paintings in Lascaux, France face extinction” (savelascaux.org). They face extinction because they may be seen as teeming with a life that, precisely, threatens their integrity. Lascaux Cave closed to the public in 1963 in an effort to save its paleolithic paintings and carvings from further degradation. Algae colonies had started to appear ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
Critique of Alien Reason: Toward a Critical Interplanetary Humanities
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  Abstract: The thought of life on other planets has tended to flare up suddenly at key moments in human history—precisely, in times of intense philosophical and humanistic preoccupation with problems of habitability of Earth. One such key historical moment is certainly underway right now. Our present moment is the first to discover what French Enlightenment polymath Bernard de Fontanelle hypothesized as the “plurality of worlds” to be a reality. In the past decade, astronomers have detected 23 Earth-like planets deemed to be potentially habitable (and 37 other planets that may be habitable1). A planet is defined as potentially habitable if it is rocky and at a distance from its star that permits liquid water to form on the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
Inhabiting a Viral Culture
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  Abstract: “My video went viral on YouTube!” It is most teenagers’ dream to post such a tweet. Eureka! The words shine in the aura of success. They tell us, too, that the teenager’s excitement may be a symptom of the hype and hoopla circulating at the speed of light in our contemporary culture. COVID-19 notwithstanding, it is little wonder that “viral” crisply describes how news disseminates and diffuses in the digital age, where speed and hyper-connectedness are the measure of all things. In addition to the metaphoric use of “viral” and leading up to the pandemic of COVID-19, over the past decade, a plethora of horror films and disease thrillers have foretold or programmed the devastations we are witnessing. Telling stories ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
Along the Fold
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  Abstract: One of the indelible images of Manhattan in late March 2020 was the archive of horror accreting daily on my neighbor’s doormat. Above the fold, the New York Times reported on so many thousand lives lost one day, so many million jobs lost the next. No one who was in New York City in spring 2020 will forget the ambulances wailing nearly nonstop—an awful, inescapable sound that could shatter any numbed state of abstraction in relation to the daily numbers.Yet, after the sheer terror of the first weeks, it became clear that the true horror recorded in the Times lay along the fold: that is, in the stark divide between those most at risk, as reported above the fold, and those able to shelter at home, whose needs were ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00