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1. The Peripheral Future

   In this introduction to her gathering on Digital and Natural Ecologies, Lisa Swanstrom pulls back from the tendency towards apocalyptic speculation that is commonplace in popular discourse of technology and nature. Instead, Swanstrom offers a more grounded discourse that addresses the impact of the digital on the natural.

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

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 08:39

2. Intersectional Ecologies: Matt Kenyon’s "Useful Fictions," an interview

   Lisa Swanstrom interviews Matt Kenyon, founding member of S.W.A.M.P. (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production, co-founded with Doug Easterly), an Associate Professor of Art in the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, and a 2015 TED Fellow.

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

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 09:13

3. Nature is What Hurts

   In this review of Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects, Robert Seguin contemplates the implication of the text’s eponymous subject on art, philosophy, and politics. The “hyperobject,” a hypothetical agglomeration of networked interactions with the potential to produce inescapable shifts in the very conditions of existence, emerges as the key consideration for the being in the present.

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

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 10:25

4. Un/Official Worlds

   In this review of Mark Seltzer’s The Official World, Ulmer reflects on the interdependence of “the official” and “the unofficial” in contemporary constructs of reality. 

   (Source: EBR) 

   Filip Falk - 24.09.2017 - 21:15

5. An Ontological Turn

   In this review of Mitchum Huehls’ After Critique, Smith situates Huehls’ “ontological approach” to the study of contemporary literature as arising from and standing in opposition to the “zombie plague” of neoliberalism.

   (Source: EBR) 

   Filip Falk - 24.09.2017 - 21:20

6. The Uses of Postmodernism

   Jacob Edmond argues that while postmodernism might be useless as a theoretical concept or periodization, it nevertheless illuminates changes, both local and global, in the final decades of the twentieth century. Edmond analyzes the uses of postmodernism in the United States, New Zealand, Russia, and China. He shows how the various and even contradictory uses of the term postmodernism allowed it to represent both sides in the unfolding tension between globalization and localism in late twentieth-century culture.

   (source: ebr)

   Juan Manuel Altadill Casas - 27.09.2017 - 18:05

7. Processing Words, or Suspended Inscriptions Written with Light

   In this review, Manuel Portela considers Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s Track Changes in light of a “general computerization of the modes of production of writing.”

    

   Mona Pihlamäe - 11.10.2017 - 14:30

8. “Persist in Folly”: Review of Mark Greif, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973

   Afterthoughts on the end of the sixties, the death of the author, the rise of Theory and the fall of humanism.

   Source: Author's abstract

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 16:36

9. The Primacy of the Object

   In his review of Martin Paul Eve’s Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno, Julius Greve situates this new book on Pynchon within the upheavals produced by speculative realism and contemporary discourses on materialism. In doing so, Greve reminds us of what was always already the case: the literary-philosophical relevance of Pynchon, which turns out to be all the more inescapable in contemporary political climates.

   Source: Author's abstract

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 17:41

10. Recounting Signatures: A Review of James McFarland’s Constellation

    In reviewing James McFarland’s Constellation, Donald Cross reminds readers of the rich potential of scholarly discourse. Beyond mere citations and their absence, Cross traces across the bright stars of Nietzsche and Benjamin (and Derrida) relationships worthy of serious consideration. In an age of copy/paste citations, impact reports, and optimized academics, pondering the constellations offers an opportunity to rediscover the subtle intensity of tracing forms in the void.

    Source: Author's abstract

    Ana Castello - 17.10.2017 - 14:45

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