Volume 31, Numbers 1 & 2 (2023)
Contents
Editor’s Note
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Infrastructuralism
Theorizing Infrastructure: An Introduction
Christopher Breu and Jeffrey R. Di Leo
In the Air Tonight: Mediating Infrastructure with Miami Vice
Anna Kornbluh
Theory as Infrastructure: A Proposal for Troubling Times
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Infrastructure
Zachary Tavlin
Up in the Cloud: Digital Infrastructure, Lyric Poetry, and Late Capitalism
Christian P. Haines
Of Oozing Walls and Bloody Pools: Horror Film, Water Infrastructure, and Feminist Critique
Johanna Isaacson
Land as Infrastructure
Crystal Bartolovich
Indigenous Infrastructuralisms? Grounding Materialisms along and against the Pipeline
Jordan B. Kinder
Settler Colonialism and Apocalyptic Infrastructure in Almanac of the Dead
Sean Grattan
Infrastructural Nomads: Graffiti Futurism and the Afrofuturist War
Machine
Tim Matts
Werner Bräunig’s Rummelplatz: Reading for Socialist Infrastructure
Hunter Bivens
Park Infrastructures and the Duties of Trees
Nathan Schmidt
The Infrastructural Unconscious
Christopher Breu
Blue (Infra)structuralism: Blue Postcoloniality, New Earth, and the Ethics of “Desiring-Production”
Abhisek Ghosal and Bhaskarjyoti Ghosal
Water Infrastructure Is Life
Caroline Levine
General Articles
Tests of Truth: Foucault’s Anarchaeology of the Oath
Alberto Toscano
What Anticriticism Is (after Karl Shapiro)
A. J. Carruthers
Thinking as If Already Dead: The Imaginal Life of Gilles Deleuze
Brad Evans and Julian Reid
Sacred Night of Study
Tyson E. Lewis
The Return of Teleology: A Primer on Terrence Deacon’s Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
Henry Staten
“A New Persistent Cough”: The Coronavirus, Hyperobjects, and the Pandemic Aesthetic
Val Nolan
The Destiny of the Work of Art: Causes, Propositions, and Shakespeare
P. Kishore Saval
Reviews
Joyful Criticism
Benjamin Schreier
Reading Incompleteness
Bryan Counter
Forum
Zombie Work Force: Capitalism, Sacrifice, and the Virtual Afterlife of Labor
Jose Alvarez Lara and Abigail Muller
Transparent, Holistic, Inclusive, and Humane: Health Benefit Struggles in an Age of Pandemic
Crystal Bartolovich
Canadian Truckers’ Protest: Setting Lacan on His Feet?
Clint Burnham
Science Is Real
Claire Colebrook
Affective Academe: Immaterial Labor, Higher Education, and the Pandemic
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
The Political Economy of Pestilence
Peter Hitchcock
The End of Labor, No End of Work
Sharon O’Dair
Isolation and Community: Reading Daniel Defoe with Our Pandemic Philosophers
Brian O’Keeffe
The Pay-to-Play MA: A Twenty-First-Century Financial Innovation
Jeffrey J. Williams
Racial Resentment or Economic Anxiety? On the Politics of Material Interests
Zahi Zalloua
Interviews
The Politics of Form: An Interview with Caroline Levine
Jeffrey J. Williams
Blue Humanities—Oceans, Seascapes, and Ecotones: In Conversation with John Gillis
John Muthyala
Crossover Criticism: An Interview with Sheila Liming
Jeffrey J. Williams
Book Notes
Notice to Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
Statement of Publishing Ethics
Editor-in-Chief
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston, Victoria
Associate Editor
Ian Buchanan, University of Wollongong (Australia)
Advisory Board
Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
Eyal Amiran, University of California, Irvine
Emily Apter, New York University
Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
Michael Bérubé, Penn State University
Chris Breu, Illinois State University
Edward Casey, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Andrew Cole, Princeton University
Claire Colebrook, Penn State University
Stanley Corngold, Princeton University
Lennard J. Davis, University of Illinois, Chicago
Robert Con Davis-Undiano, University of Oklahoma
John Frow, University of Sydney (Australia)
Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University (Canada)
Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University
Karen Hanson, University of Minnesota
Phillip Brian Harper, New York University
Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York
Vincent B. Leitch, University of Oklahoma
Paisley Livingston, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
Sophia A. McClennen, Penn State University
Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina
Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Jeffrey Nealon, Penn State University
David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
Gerhard Richter, Brown University
Alan Schrift, Grinnell College
Paul H. Smith, George Mason University
Henry Sussman, Yale University
Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University
Jeffrey J. Williams, Carnegie Mellon University
Call for Papers: Theorizing Asia
Focus Editor: Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Asia is not self-evident. The region called Asia was culturally defined after the Russia-Japan War and geopolitically designed after the Second World War. Modern Asia was the historical byproduct of colonialism and its effects; the rise of nationalism in Asia was collective resistance to colonial modernization. Modernity in Asia has been the consequence of the dialectical process between modernization and counter-modernization. Its complicated historical background registers the strong demand of ”Asian theory” for analyzing the structure of Asian modernity. Recently, as participating in the global distribution of labor, contemporary Asia has attracted many scholars not only for its rapid economic development, but its cultural products. Asian contemporary artists and writers have critically acclaimed for their successful recognition. This issue aims to bring together various theoretical interventions into Asian literature, contemporary art and culture as well as any inquiry into the intellectual history of critical theory in Asia. Focus will be placed on the dynamic relation between Western theory and Asian intellectual history.
Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2021. Instructions for submissions.
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