Volume 24, Numbers 1-2
This issue addresses diverse questions of materialism and materiality. Articles dialogue with emergent accounts of materiality and materialism, from new materialist, feminist materialist, speculative realist, and object-oriented accounts of materiality to rethinking of concepts of materiality and materialism in Marxist theory, ecotheory, biopolitical theory, affect theory, animal studies, and posthumanisms. They ask can materialism serve as a new organizing principle for the humanities? What kinds of questions does a focus on materialism and materiality open up? What does it close down? How can the different forms of materialist speculation be brought into productive dialogue with each other?
Contents
Christopher Breu
Why Materialisms Matter
Levi R. Bryant
Knots: Notes for a Daemonic Naturalism
Ashley Byock
Dark Matters: Race and the Antebellum Logic of Decorporation
Christopher Breu
A Identity vs. Embodiment: A Materialist Rethinking of Intersex and Queerness
Nicholas Chare
Material Witness: Conservation Ethics and the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Matthew Schilleman
The Bureaucrat Inside: Kafka, Office Media, and the End of Authorship
Marah Nagelhout
Nature and the ‘Industry that Scorched it’: Adorno and Anthropocene Aesthetics
Rebekah Sheldon
Dark Correlationism: Mysticism, Magic, and the New Realisms
MATERIALISMS II
Marta Figlerowicz, Padma D. Maitland, and Christopher Patrick Miller
Object Emotions
Julie Beth Napolin
The Fact of Resonance: An Acoustics of Determination in Faulkner and Benjamin
Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang
Tiling Over the Modern Pathos: Memory, Crisis, and the Emergence of a Taiwanese Surface
Simon Porzak
Pop Music and Schizophrenia: Kylie Minogue’s Telepathic Affect-Objects
Walt Hunter
Planetary Dejection: An Ode to the Commons
Charles Altieri
Are We Being Materialist Yet?