Volume 32, No. 1-2 (2024)
Critical Environments
Contents
Editor’s Note
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Critical Environments
The Introduction to Critical Environments
Aaron Jaffe
The Eco-Marxist Problematic: Value Between Economy and Ecology
Jan Overwijk
Sick Lit: Zombie Apparatus and Ideology’s Severance
Robin Truth Goodman
The Plantationocene, or Critique under a Black Horizon
Nicole Simek
The Politics of the Faceless
Zahi Zalloua
Eli Clare: Outsider Theory, the Environment, and Brilliant Imperfection
Jane Gallop
Mari Ruti and Climate Grief
Clint Burnham
Nonbinary/Natures
Alison Sperling
The Jargon of Critical Environments
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
How Resilience Became the Content of Digital Educational Privatization and Other Disasters of Resilience
Kenneth J. Saltman
Notes on Abstract Carbon
Derek Woods
Technical Rationality and the Environmental Turn: The Case of Holly Herndon’s
Oikos
Michael F. Miller
Information without Meaning in Jeff VanderMeer’s Trilogy of Area X
Cristina Iuli
Total Admin: The College Campus as Critical Environment in Pynchon’s
Vineland
Edward P. Dallis-Comentale
The Dreams of Sympoiesis
Cary Wolfe
General Articles
The Materialism of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s
Between the World and Me
Timothy Hinton
Local Traditions, Colonial Modernity and the Politics of Pressure: Arundhati Roy’s
The God of Small Things
Ubaraj Katawal
Reformation
It’s All about the Benjamin(s), or, Fredric Jameson’s Precursor in Literary Criticism and Theory
Thomas A. Laughlin
“Breaking Out of the Windless Present”: Jameson’s Representation of the Benjaminian Cosmos and History in
The Benjamin Files
Koonyong Kim
A Dialectician
Entre Nous
Maria Elisa Cevasco
History Disintegrates into Images
Sami Khatib
Forum I: The Ethics of Close Reading?
The Ethics of Close Reading?
Jane Gallop, Eric Hayot, E. L. McCallum, and Gary Weissman
The Ethics of Close Reading
Jane Gallop
On Aggressive Close Reading
Gary Weissman
Is the Ethics of Close Reading Feminist? Or, Friends of Close Readers
E. L. McCallum
How Close Reading Goes Off
Johanna Winant
From the English School to the Archive
Robert Higney
Close Reading Beyond the Anglophone Orbit
Yael Segalovitz
Against the Ethics of Close Reading: Close Readers, Lay Readers, and Critical Humility
Faye Halpern
Some Propositions on Close Reading
Paula M. L. Moya
Close Reading Needs a Better Theory of Actuality
Eric Hayot
Where to Begin?
Paul Fleming
Forum II: Culture Wars 2.0
Targeting Tenure in Dark Academe: Antitheory, Neoliberalism, and the New Assault on Academic Freedom
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
“Hey Asshole, I’ve Got Your Culture War Right Here”: Satire, Invective, and Fighting Back
Paul Allen Miller
The Foreclosure of America and the Emergence of Automania
Daniel T. O’Hara
Race and Sex Redux
Nicole Simek
“I’m as mad as Hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”: Anger, Critique, and the Culture Wars 2.0
Robert T. Tally Jr.
Reckoning with America’s Anti-Blackness: From Repression to Disavowal—and Beyond
Zahi Zalloua
Interviews
The Stance of Criticism: An Interview with David Scott
Jeffrey J. Williams
Inside the Walls: An Interview with Doran Larson
Jeffrey J. Williams
Book Notes
Notice to Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
