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After the Leftovers, Contemporaries Essays
Being Here, Leftover
In its finale, The Leftovers catches us up. Earlier in the season, the series’ third, Nora Durst (Carrie Coon), a US fraud investigator, lands in Australia, having been notified of…
After the Leftovers, Contemporaries Essays
Care, Interrupted: Social Reproduction, Infrastructures of Care, and the Return to Fatherhood Fantasy in The Leftovers
“Young Mother” and the Crisis in Social Reproduction February 2019: I fold laundry while watching television, watching a mother sort laundry under a television, both of us unaware of what’s…
After the Leftovers, Contemporaries Essays
Family, Unbearable and Otherwise
Seven years after the Sudden Departure, erstwhile sitcom star Mark Linn-Baker, having faked his own departure after being left behind when his three Perfect Strangers co-stars departed, contacts Nora Durst…
After the Leftovers, Contemporaries Essays
Why Are None of these People in Therapy? Doing Battle with Mass Grief in The Leftovers
“Do you want to feel this way?” A mysterious man approaches Nora, a woman who lost her husband and two children in a split second three years before. Nora looks…
After the Leftovers, Contemporaries Essays
On the Other Side of the Screen
“I saw you on my TV. You were looking right at me.” — “G’Day Melbourne,” The Leftovers, season 2, episode 4. Halfway through the second season of The Leftovers, Kevin drinks…
After the Leftovers, Contemporaries Essays
After The Leftovers
There are two different kinds of leftovers, two different problems they represent. The first problem is long division, which teaches us to let the leftovers be. The leftovers of division…
After the Leftovers, Contemporaries Essays
“Nothing is Next”: After The Leftovers, After Extinction
In his introduction to the edited volume After Extinction, Richard Grusin questions the chronologically linear assumptions of extinctive thought: “Is extinction something that only happens belatedly, after there are already…
Contemporaries Essays, Samuel R. Delany's Improbable Communities
Improbable Communities: Post-precarity and the Politics of Sex in Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand appeared in 1984, the same year as William Gibson’s Neuromancer. While more people have likely read Gibson’s novel, Delany gives…
Contemporaries Essays, Samuel R. Delany's Improbable Communities
Dyslexical Sexcess, Photo-Textual Rhythms
“I’m promiscuously autobiographical.” – Samuel R. Delany1 “Improvisation, in whatever possible excess of representation that inheres in whatever probable deviance of form, always also operates as a kind of foreshadowing,…