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Critique! Critique! Critique! Black Labor in the Early American Book Trade

practice and Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics, could connect the archival tools of bibliography to reparative scholarship and political dissent. This essay’s recovery of Black women and men in the ... recovering Black print labor, I contend that critical bibliography must incorporate elements of critique outlined in the traditions of critical philosophy inaugurated by Immanuel Kant and continued by

On the Black Book as Durational: Noah Purifoy’s Desert Library

museum, and indeed Purifoy’s work as a whole, are deeply invested in a complex social and political dialogue with assemblage and thing theory of the sort popularized by Bill Brown and Jane Bennett ... , they become a single whole that is at once both more than the sum of its parts and also irreducible to those parts. The assemblage of Library exemplifies a political engagement with objecthood that

On Feminist Practice in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Trade: Buying, Cataloguing, and Selling

on the book’s political philosophy in my description, it would have been incomplete without including information on Virginia Heinlein’s role in it. Principle 11 Feminist booksellers explicitly draw ... . For this purpose, I am taking a broad approach to the definition of “feminism” as it can be put into practice, based on the work of bell hooks and others: a structural philosophy underlying everyday

Surface Reading Paper as Feminist Bibliography

archival sources with bibliography and theory to demonstrate fresh affordances of watermarks—both as they alter our reading of Sejanus and as they intervene more broadly in the affective and political models ... depths of a text to triumphantly reveal what it was reluctant to give up. While a Freudian patient was assumed to be hiding past trauma, a text instead represses “the political conditions or forces bearing

How Infallibilists Can Have It All

agent S has to a fact P that makes P certain for S. I do not take a stand here on precisely what facts we can apprehend. This will largely depend on the outcomes of debates in the philosophy of mind and ... philosophy of mind and perception will differ on what kinds of factors are mentally accessible in this way. In section 1, I developed the concept of apprehension in a way that remains neutral on these debates

Trees and Texts: Indigenous History, Material Media, and the Logan Elm

twentieth-century Native American orations, and twenty-first century interpretations of Logan by enrolled members of the Seneca Cayuga Nation. These interpretations, rooted in the sacred and political ... constitute Haudenosaunee historiographic and political practices,14 as well as the memories of past and current-day knowledge keepers, including members of both settler communities in Ohio and the Seneca

Towards an Experimental Bibliography of Hemispheric Reconstruction Newspapers

many times over the years as part of the paper’s ambitions for political influence or commercial appeal. Experimental mapping and closer analysis demonstrate that a more iterative bibliographic approach ... collective experiences in the format of a newspaper.6 The format of a newspaper represents an accumulated archive of its social, political, economic, and cultural lives. The formats of digitized newspaper

Activist Bibliography as Abolitionist Pedagogy in the American Prison Writing Archive

digital humanities for a public audience that increases the functionality and content in the archive, defies carceral censorship, and demystifies broad public and political misinformation about prisons and ... handling that this has been going on all my life, and it’s happening now, and we’ve been lied to.”12 Political scientist Marie Gottschalk has compared prison witness to narratives of slavery that

The Invisible Gland: Affect and Political Economy

Affect Effect: Dynamics of Emotion in Political Thinking and Behavior, ed. W. Russell Neuman, George E. Marcus, Ann N. Crigler, and Michael MacKuen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 453 ... Criticism, Winter 0011-1589 The I nvisible Gland: Afec t and Political Economy Jef P ruchnic 0 0 The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, ed. Patricia Ticineto Clough with Jean Halley. Durham, NC

Book Reviews: Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing by Ian Bogost, Jet Plane: How It Works by David Macaulay, andVibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things by Jane Bennett

In this review essay, I review Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing (2012) and Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010) alongside David ... nonhuman, as well. Where Bogost raises the stakes for philosophy by crafting ways of engaging the nonhuman, Bennett doubles down on these stakes in attending to the political and ethical implications of

The Impossibility of Conservatism? Insights from Russian History

in the Tsarist period to show that if they live in times of great hardship, or under arbitrary political rule, political actors and thinkers with conservative sympathies (such as respect for tradition ... developing conservative political philosophy, other parts of history where conservatism?s problems have emerged and have a recognizable connection with the situation today remain of great interest. In

What Could a Trans Book History Look Like? Toward Trans Codicology

connection to and through the past. Needing Trans Codicology—A Personal Introduction The archive is a political space. What (or who) is preserved, how, and by whom are not neutral outcomes. Consequently, the ... archive is also a space where the political gets personal. For transgender people—as for other minority groups—the grassroots collection of archival materials has been and remains a crucial claim to space

Listening to Bamewawagezhikaquay’s Teachers: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s Citational Cosmopolitics

tribal-national contexts and instead took them as broadly emblematic of “the philosophy of the Indian mind” rather than as situated knowledge-ways.9 While “On leaving my children” immediately indexes the ... the origin.”34 The line “[T]races of his fingers here” evinces what Schneider calls an “anticitational citation,” where stanzas render “a philosophy of the ‘here’ to which [settler] citational

“In the Cards”: The Material Textuality of Tarotological Reading

middle of the fifteenth century when their dominance in the Milanese duchy was eventually succeeded by the Sforza family. The wealth and political power of these families provided incentives for ... way, it is impossible to understand how tarot reading currently operates without a consideration of its manifestly proximal relation to the development of the liberal arts in early modern philosophy

"A Rationality Larger Than The Material Universe"

Review of Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic by Paul Hamilton. (London: Continuum, 2007. Pp. 192. $138.00 cloth.) and Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason by Richard ... . Paul Hamilton’s book would do better as the subject of a seminar than of a review. It assumes a fresh reading, plus total recall, of European philosophy at least from Kant to Kierkegaard, as well as of

Book Reviews

in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy (David P. Haney) (Reviewed by Paul Youngquist, Penn State University) Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out (Paul Elledge ... Foucauldian comparison of the coherence of the ‘‘political rationale for the Inquisition’’ against the ‘‘fatuous Enlightenment assertion of a free private realm secured by submission in a public realm by which

New Materialism’s Second Phase

influence political and moral character in favorable ways (Chapter 1). He also leads Bennett to see the democratic sensibilities of the “I” as reflections of a larger “sympathy,” perceived here as a ... increased exposure to the usual critique of Bennett’s work. Many, I wager, will perceive influx and efflux as a naive individualization of political struggle, and frame its new materialist virtue ethics as a

Conjuring Creative Citizenship Beyond Rights

exposing the nearly surreal level of denial and untruth, not to mention sheer interpretive cynicism, at the core of our current political systems and their discourses. In her insistence that the gap between ... words and reality in the current political arena has totalitarian ancestors and aims. In her recognition that living in the space between stated values and actual practices is the truly maddening

Try Anything

Conference Review “Anxiety, Urgency, Outrage, Hope . . . A Conference on Political Feeling.” Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, October 19–20, 2007 ... dramatic and mundanely repetitive, Santiago Muñoz explores the affective conditions of life in the time of global capital. The video considers the political exhaustion of the contemporary moment— dead-end

Beyond Canonicity: The Future(s) of Early Modern Women Writers

attacks only divert our focus from the structural inequities that sustain patriarchal oppression: turning our criticism on one another . . . often signal[s] obliviousness to the larger political landscape ... , MacDonald questions the political usefulness of the rhetoric of loss. Noting that the attorney general of Kentucky condemned the tragic “loss” of Breonna Taylor’s life while refusing to hold anyone