MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335744
M. Litman
{"title":"Diamonds from the Jersey Shore","authors":"M. Litman","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"207 1","pages":"30 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74971815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335730
J. Germain
{"title":"For the Street That Held Us","authors":"J. Germain","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335730","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"26 1","pages":"28 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78539170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335828
Margret Grebowicz, Zachary Low Reyna
{"title":"The Animality of Simone Weil","authors":"Margret Grebowicz, Zachary Low Reyna","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335828","url":null,"abstract":"Personhood, language, and voice are heavily culturally overdetermined categories, particularly today, when they appear to many posthumanist critical eyes as saturated with anthropocentrism. But the answer is not to avoid or “overcome” them. The working hypothesis of this article is that, in its insistence on the primacy of the “radically other,” contemporary posthumanist political thought forecloses an important route to one of its own central goals: building paradigms for thinking about shared, multispecies worldings. The authors argue that the basis for such worldings is to be found in the concept of shared, quotidian affliction, following the work—including the work of both living and dying—of Simone Weil. The entry point into a nonhuman reading of Weil is Chris Kraus’s 1997 novel, I Love Dick, which here becomes a story at the threshold of the human-animal boundary, thus opening the impersonal realm of our shared zoetic life and its multispecies potential. Throughout, the authors play at something like an interchangeability of Kraus and Weil, as a performative response to both Weil’s call for the impersonal and Kraus’s complicated relationship to autofiction/autotheory.","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44492477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335702
A. Mouw, Jacqui Germain, M. Litman, Jamal Michel, Kelli Russell Agodon, Vasantha Sambamurti, David Ryan, R. Ghosh, Margret Grebowicz, Zachary Low Reyna, V. Bühlmann, D. Suvin, J. Pérez, CD Eskilson, R. Broatch, Joanna B. Johnson, A. Gretes, Aimee Seu, Robert F. Gow, Sarah Taban, Michael Welch
{"title":"Perseus Beheading Medusa","authors":"A. Mouw, Jacqui Germain, M. Litman, Jamal Michel, Kelli Russell Agodon, Vasantha Sambamurti, David Ryan, R. Ghosh, Margret Grebowicz, Zachary Low Reyna, V. Bühlmann, D. Suvin, J. Pérez, CD Eskilson, R. Broatch, Joanna B. Johnson, A. Gretes, Aimee Seu, Robert F. Gow, Sarah Taban, Michael Welch","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335702","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article tries to develop a complicated relationship between the material-plastic, the desire principle, and its affective dimensions. It explores how plastic \"touches\" us multi-sensorially through its materiality and materialization. As ready-made, found, waste, abandoned, and obscure objects, plastic triggers and challenges the imagination and builds a variety of aesthetic affordances. It constructs and inheres in a desire-principle where the material goes beyond consumerism, cultural habituality, economic viability, the eco-catastrophic mandate, and spectrality into the (im)pure realm of art and imagination. This demonstrates how the plasticity of plastic and the plasticity of an artistic mind come into a compelling and convulsive interplay. This works through three sections. First, the \"collectorial desire\" where the artists in question emerge as collectors of plastic objects and construct a deeply invested negotiation with material and aesthetic-affective desire; second, the \"ghosting desire\" where all plastic artists are shown to have an epiphanous and analytic relationship with plastic objects as they make their way into art forms having a past life to themselves, ghostly in their objecthood and object presence; third, the \"connective desire\" where plastic becomes the \"plastic subject\" and initiates manifold becomings through instances like the plastiglomerates, the plastic-rock that expands the human-nonhuman affective arc of transmedial existence. Invested in art-interpretation and poetics of materiality, the article brings home a fresh realm of plastic-art with plastic-desire.","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"38 3 1","pages":"1 - 1 - 121 - 122 - 143 - 144 - 148 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 2 - 2 - 20 - 23 - 24 - 24 - 25 - 25 - 26 - 26 -"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90468791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335842
V. Bühlmann
{"title":"Atomic Time and Quantum Literacy","authors":"V. Bühlmann","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335842","url":null,"abstract":"Michel Serres is well known as a strong advocate of science becoming a way of life. As a contribution to the growing literature seeking to address the Anthropocene, this article develops how we could relate the strong and underlying motif of quantum optics that is at work throughout Serres’s oeuvre, and the implications Serres exposes in terms of a natural philosophy (Bühlmann 2020), through what the author sees as the quantum literacy of a world poetics of the current present. Such a literacy is literacy for which the constitutive relation for theoretical thought—between light, vision, and speculation—turns into an intellectual and yet material and physical power. Such a literacy would be an impersonal kind of literacy, a literacy for which poetics, mathematics, and the sciences are inextricably linked in the domain of what is here called—in distinction to atom time—atomic time.","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45110651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335660
Robert F. Gow
{"title":"My Brief Life as a Pheromone Salesgirl","authors":"Robert F. Gow","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335660","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"43 1","pages":"20 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85112733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335604
R. Broatch
{"title":"Back When We Had Horns","authors":"R. Broatch","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"125 1","pages":"4 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74263450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}