{"title":"Fit to Breed: Exercise and Sport in Women's Speculative Fiction","authors":"K. Yang","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.a903591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.a903591","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Ursula Le Guin's \"The Matter of Seggri\" as critiques of the segregative gendering of exercise and sport—especially, with regard to their portrayals of the dystopian ramifications of stringent communities where procreative competence is the sole criterion for determining bodily fitness.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75341695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of Place: Foucault's Heterotopias in Anne Michaels's The Winter Vault","authors":"Michael Greenstein","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.a903585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.a903585","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay applies Michel Foucault's theory of heterotopia or other place to Anne Michaels's second novel, The Winter Vault, which repeatedly uses \"place\" as trope and topos. These \"counter-sites\" in her fiction contest communal and environmental displacements, and help to transform the otherness of her characters from loss to partial belonging.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79996940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"T.C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth and the Posthumanization of Readers","authors":"Sue Lovell","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay analyses how T.C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth represents an embodied character embedded in material and social environments (zoe-life) processing trauma using Braidotti’s affirmative ethics. It argues that readers experience a loss of individual agency instrumental to becoming posthuman. It connects current discussions on climate change and Anthropocene thinking to critical posthumanism in relation to shifting readers' subjectivities.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75203729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Q&A","authors":"Frédéric Neyrat, J. Nichols","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The following exchange took place during the Question and Answer period following Frédéric Neyrat’s talk, “Heliopolitics (Or How to Cure an Amnesiac Sun?).” The talk was given digitally on 17 September 2021 as part of Relative Time/Little Time, a speaker series designed collaboratively by Dutch artist duo Bik Van der Pol and Mosaic.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84274530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hegel’s Philosophy of the World","authors":"Andrew Haas","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Hegel’s Philosophy of Right is not a philosophy of the state—it is a philosophy of the world. This means that right must be rethought—for it is neither present in the world nor absent therefrom, but implied thereby, which is how right is right, and rights right.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74481491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“To float, to hide, to disappear”: The Hacker in The Circle","authors":"N. Mandel","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Reading Dave Eggers’s The Circle through the figure of the computer hacker, this essay reflects on the history of hacking, hacking’s evolving relationship with embodiment, and the implications of this relationship for the representation of technology in literature.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76089689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walter Benjamin’s Cosmos: Correspondence, Aura, and the Cosmo-Geological Subject","authors":"F. Neyrat","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the interpretation of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy, his thinking is commonly divided into two distinct blocks: the culture-language-aesthetics block, where language functions as a mediation between the critique of culture and the analysis of technology at work in art, and the politics-history-theology block, where history mediates between Benjamin’s (quasi-)Marxist politics and his heterodox messianism. I propose to question this conventional interpretation by exploring Benjamin’s cosmology, his thinking of the universe and the Earth, the way this thinking determines the concept of aura, and the new type of subjectivity that this philosophy induces. Benjamin’s cosmos is neither an ordered and hierarchical space, nor a totality of celestial objects, but rather the occasion of a lightning experience, an improbable “constellation” where the most distant in space and time fleetingly encounter the here and now.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78782559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heliopolitics (Or How to Cure an Amnesiac Sun?)","authors":"F. Neyrat, D. Ross","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:After the end of the grand narrative of coal (associated with the working class and collective struggles), and then the end of the grand narrative of oil (which fueled individualistic dreams), this essay instigates a solar grand narrative from which to rethink the relation between ecology, technology, and politics: the Heliopolis to come will be an unstable dwelling, a civic bivouac spinning endlessly, sailing across an expanding universe.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74332027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Frédéric Neyrat’s Critical Thought","authors":"A. de Boever","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Frédéric Neyrat knows philosophy’s ins—and especially its outs. One might go so far as to claim—and Neyrat’s philosophical manifesto Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism enables one to make such a claim—that Neyrat works on the outside (le dehors) and philosophical narratives of the outside. The unfolding of some of his work’s other major accomplishments can be read in light of that claim: from his book L’Indemne on destruction and the phantasm of indemnity—an early title in what, by now and after publications in this area by scholars like Wendy Brown, Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Jasbir Puar, or Isabell Llorey, one can call “vulnerability studies”—to his critiques of catastrophe biopolitics (a book that followed on the heels of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine and reads like a philosophical development of The work of the philosopher consists first and foremost","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87155872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Systemic Nature of Environmental Disaster: Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead","authors":"G. Ryoo","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:With scientific insights drawn from systems theory, this essay examines Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead, which addresses the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel disaster, illuminating how the poem embodies the systemic nature of environmental disaster that emerges through the interactions of nature and matter, culture and technology, and human and nonhuman.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78706694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}