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Contemporaries Essays, Cultural Analytics Now
05.06.19
Ted Underwood, Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change 1: Conflict Ted Underwood is ambitious. In Distant Horizons, published in February by University of Chicago Press, he reports that recent advances…
Contemporaries Essays, Cultural Analytics Now
05.06.19
Call it cultural analytics or distant reading or data-rich literary studies. It is that branch of digital humanities that most leans on quantitative methods to understand its objects. For much…
Issue 2: How To Be Now, Peer Reviewed Articles
Issue 2: How To Be Now, Peer Reviewed Articles
Issue 2: How To Be Now, Peer Reviewed Articles
Contemporaries Essays, Poetry's Social Forms
04.26.19
From popular dystopian narratives to steampunk, zombie and horror tales to Afrosurrealist texts and alternate histories, speculative modes proliferate across our contemporary cultural landscape. Speculative aesthetics play on the tense,…
Contemporaries Essays, Poetry's Social Forms
04.26.19
I dwell in Possibility -A fairer House than Prose -More numerous of Windows -Superior – for Doors – What’s a window, to a poet? For Emily Dickinson, above, the act…
Contemporaries Essays, Poetry's Social Forms
04.25.19
In what follows, I explore how the 2017 French translation of Susan Howe’s landmark 1985 text, My Emily Dickinson, as Mon Emily Dickinson by the Dickinson scholar and prolific translator…
Contemporaries Essays, Poetry's Social Forms
04.24.19
all that you touch you changeall that you change changes you [ . . . ] During this “Dim Age” governments defined parts of the North American Southwest as zones…
Contemporaries Essays, Poetry's Social Forms
04.23.19
One Chicago evening in spring 2013, I sat behind Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a small black box theater. We had gathered to see the experimental troupe Theater Oobleck as they…