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1. Love Your Corporation

   Analyzing the long and complex history of the term corporation, Turner explores the possibility that the term’s roots in the universitas might serve as a basis for a re-translation and re-valuation of the corporate concept and establish a ground, both discursive and practical, for a reassessment of the “political” as a process of imaginative transformation and collective action.

   (Source: EBR)

   Filip Falk - 24.09.2017 - 21:31

2. Ghostbusters 2.0

   If the 1984 Ghostbusters film can be read as an early foreshadowing of the neoliberal transformation of the United States of America, how might the film’s 2016 sequel be interpreted?  Ralph Clare reviews the new film in the context of his reading of the original in his 2014 book Fictions, Inc. 

   (Source: EBR) 

   Filip Falk - 24.09.2017 - 21:35

3. Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel

   Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel

   Glenn Solvang - 25.09.2017 - 15:19

4. Karl Steel’s How To Make A Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages

   In one half of a pair of critical reviews looking at recent titles in animal studies, Nicole Shukin examines Karl Steel’s How to Make a Human (Steel reviews Shukin in the other half). In particular, Shukin discusses Steel’s framing of “the human” in terms of medieval violence, and she considers what that framing can offer to today’s political and ethical conversations.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/humanizing)

   Malene Fonnes - 25.09.2017 - 15:31

5. Against Animal Authenticity, Against the Forced March of the Now: a review of Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital

   In one half of a pair of critical reviews looking at recent titles in animal studies, Karl Steel examines Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital (Shukin reviews Steel in the other half). In particular, Steel looks at Shukin’s biopolitical framework, and considers how that framework challenges not only our conception of what constitutes the animal, but also–and more to the bone–our conception of the capacity of fields like animal studies.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/animal_capital)

   Malene Fonnes - 25.09.2017 - 15:36

6. Sleepless in Seattle

   First, IN.S.OMNIA operates from the premise that the domain of literature as such is no longer in synch with cultural experience in contemporary America. Rather than “look for ‘the next big thing’ in literature,” IN.S.OMNIA asks, “What if the next big thing already surrounds us, embedded in small gestures we perform every day? What if the next big thing is the realization that we have changed the way we use culture - remapping, rewiring, renetworking the same old pool of elements in new ways, adding to them furtive scribbles, seeking pleasures without naming them?

   tye042 - 25.09.2017 - 15:45

7. Modernism Reevaluated

   Walton Muyumba reviews two books: Michael Soto’s The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and American Literature (2004) and Manuel Martinez’s Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera(2003).

   (Source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/manufactured)

   Glenn Solvang - 25.09.2017 - 15:48

8. Cyberinthian Ways

   Linda Brigham hypercontextualizes contemporary philosophy.

   Although a hard-copy book and a hypertext essay hardly present us with apples and oranges, this particular pair troubles the work of comparison. This trouble is not simply a matter of form. Content-wise as well, Arkady Plotnitsky’s interdisciplinary exploration of poststructural metaphysics (or “meta-physics”) and David Kolb’s meditation on the textuality of philosophy relate to each other in a fashion at once too intimate and divergent. Like Blake’s Clod and Pebble from the Songs of Experience, they are contraries, or, to pick up the theme, “complementary.” As Blake would insist, though, it is through such contraries that progress happens.

    

   tye042 - 26.09.2017 - 10:38

9. Wild Ambitions

   David Cassuto reviews Wild Ideas, a collection of ecocritical essays.

   I want to like Wild Ideas. And I do like large segments of it. Compiled and edited by David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, this collection of essays arose from a symposium on the “wild” and “wilderness” at the fifth World Wilderness Congress in 1993. It takes on several of the major bugaboos of the environmental movement, among them the difference between “wildness” as Thoreau uses the term in his famously misquoted adage, “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” and “wilderness,” a term whose meaning has changed more often than Boris Yeltsin’s Cabinet.

   tye042 - 26.09.2017 - 12:20

10. Cary Wolfe, Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013)

    John Bruni contends that Cary Wolfe’s latest book “Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame” discusses the “legal issues that inform our relationships with non-human animals.” Bruni writes that in doing so Wolfe dissects the process of law-making and appearing “before the law” as animals, which might be potentially harmful and eclipse the existence of animals beyond the human sphere. According to Bruni what distinguishes Wolfe’s perspective is that he does not promote any form of “ecological self-righteousness” but rather asks the question whether we need to move beyond species-based discourses that constantly pits humans and animals against each other in an essentially unwinnable impasse—to a more ethical approach that may expand the “community of living.”

    (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/animality)

    Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:31

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